LA GIOCONDA: Maria Callas etc / Cond: Votto / 3CD
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD
Categories: Historical Works, Opera, Orchestral Music, Vocal Music
Budget Periods: Modern
Directors: Antonio Votto
Performers: Chorus and Orchestra of RAI Turin
Available: 2
Price: $22.99
LA GIOCONDA (Ponchielli: Boito)
Maria Callas; Maria Amadini; Paolo Silveri; Giulio Neri; Fedora Barbieri; Gianni Poggi; Piero Poldi; Armando Benzi
with the Chorus and Orchestra of RAI Turin
Conducted by Antonio Votto
Includes informative 12 page booklet and two Maria Callas bonus tracks
(Callas) herself is said to have commented of her part in the last act; "It's all there for anyone who cares to understand or wishes to know what I was about". ...she turns what can be a maudlin act into a real tragedy; that is the alchemy of a great artist...She completely identifies herself with Gioconda's fate throughout, depecting the unhappy ballad-singer's love, hate, jealosy and eventual magnanimity with absolute conviction and without a trace of artiface.
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