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Tag: Montserrat Aparici

  • LA GIOCONDA ~ Barcelona 1978

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    Above: Ángeles Gulín as Gioconda and Montserrat Aparici as Cieca

    A slam-bang performance of one of my favorite Italian operas, LA GIOCONDA, from the Liceu, Barcelona, in 1978. The singers simply go at it.

    Watch and listen here.

    Gioconda: Ángeles Gulín; Laura: Bruna Baglioni; Cieca: Montserrat Aparici;  Enzo: Nunzio Todesco; Barnaba: Sabin Markov; Alvise: Ivo Vinco.

    I only heard Ángeles Gulín live once: she sang Valentine in HUGUENOTS at Carnegie Hall in 1969; Beverly Sills was Marguerite de Valois and Tony Poncet was Raoul. Ms. Gulín had an enormous voice and she used it unsparingly.

    This GIOCONDA has the right knives-out, heart-on-sleeve passion. It’s that kind of all-or-nothing opera. As Gioconda sings of her love for Enzo in Act I: “My destiny is this: to love him, or to die!”

    ~ Oberon

  • Ángeles Gulín as Gioconda

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    Above: Ángeles Gulín as Gioconda and Montserrat Aparici as Cieca

    A slam-bang performance of one of my favorite Italian operas, LA GIOCONDA, from the Liceu, Barcelona, in 1978. The singers simply go at it.

    Watch and listen here.

    Gioconda: Ángeles Gulín; Laura: Bruna Baglioni; Cieca: Montserrat Aparici;  Enzo: Nunzio Todesco; Barnaba: Sabin Markov; Alvise: Ivo Vinco.

    I only heard Ángeles Gulín live once: she sang Valentine in HUGUENOTS at Carnegie Hall in 1969; Beverly Sills was Marguerite de Valois and Tony Poncet was Raoul. Ms. Gulín had an enormous voice and she
    used it unsparingly.

    This GIOCONDA has the right knives-out, heart-on-sleeve passion. It’s that kind of all-or-nothing opera. As Gioconda sings of her love for Enzo in Act I: “My destiny is this: to love him, or to die!”

    ~ Oberon