This week’s broadcast features a recording of a 1979 performance of Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, based on Victor Hugo’s French play Angelo, Tyrant of Padua. The star-studded cast includes soprano Renata Scotto in the title role and Luciano Pavarotti as Enzo Grimaldo along with Stefania Toczyska (Laura), Margarita Lilova (La Cieva), Norman Mittlemann (Barnaba), Feruccio Furlanetto (Alvise), John Del Carlo (Zuane), Tonio Di Paolo (Isepo), and David Koch (A Monk). Bruno Bartoletti conducts.
La Gioconda (Ponchielli)
Luciano Pavarotti as Enzo Grimaldo in the SF Opera’s 1979 production of La Gioconda (Photo: Ron Scherl)
