La Gioconda

Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera Placido Domingo and Eva Marton star in a sumptuous recording of Ponchiellis famed fouract melodrama a story of tyranny and intrigue set in semihistorical and everromantic Venice The action is projected by strong characters whose fundamentally sound instincts become distorted by raw passion The performance draws upon both human and technical resources including a large ballet and varies in mood from the happy carnival to scenes of the darkest gloom and horror