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La Gioconda-9 September 2004 Evening 7.30pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Concert performance
Conductor Antonio Pappano
Chorus Director Renato Balsadonna
Concert Master Peter Manning
Cast
Barnaba
a ballad singer and spy of the Inquisition 		Alexandru Agache
La Gioconda
a singer 		Violeta Urmana
La Cieca
La Gioconda's mother 		Jill Grove
Zuàne
a competitor in the Regatta 		Graeme Broadbent
Isèpo
a public scribe 		Elliot Goldie
Enzo Grimaldi
a Genoese prince, disguised as a sea captain 		Marcello Giordani
Laura Adorno
a Genoese lady 		Mariana Pentcheva
Alvise Badoero
a chief of the State Inquisition, husband of Laura 		Eric Halfvarson
A Barnabite
a cleric of St Paul 		Matthew Rose
Street singer Nigel Cliffe
Street singer Neil Gillespie
A pilot Bryan Secombe
Regatta spectators, senators, noblemen and women, masks (harlequins, pantaloons, dominoes), populace, sailors, midshipmen, monks, knights, singers The Royal Opera Chorus
Extra Chorus
Children from Tiffin School (Kingston-upon-Thames)
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Language: Italian
Surtitled by: Kenneth Chalmers
Durations: Act I: 7.33-8.23pm, Act II: 8.45-9.21pm, Acts III and IV: 9.42-10.51pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 6 and 9 September 2004 and stage manager's report for 9 September 2004 (in Royal Opera House Collections)