Synopsis

In his preface to "Angelo, Tyrant Of Padua", one of his rare prose plays, Victor Hugo says that drama has to be both noble and real. In transposing the play to operatic form, Amilcare Ponchielli and Arrigo Boito remained faithful to Hugo. Their "Gioconda", first performed at La Scala Milan in 1876, is one of the most flamboyant of classic operas. Lying somewhere between great French opera and Verdi-style drama, "La Gioconda" portrayed broken hearts and shattered destinies in 17th century Venice. Power and love, sacrifice and betrayal, poison and revenge: the opera brings together all the elements of melodrama and infuses them with a new lease of life, grandiose and operatic.

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