La Gioconda at the Metropolitan Opera
The New York Times, September 26, 2008
Love hurts.
3 responses to “Love hurts.”
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AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Celebrates its 46th Season with:
ÉDOUARD LALO’S LE ROI D’YS
A tale of passion, scorn and redemption.
A city faced with watery annihilation.
And the King’s daughter behind it all.
Friday, October 3rd at 8PM
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
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Join Maestro Leon Botstein 75 minutes prior to performance for an illuminating pre-concert discussion. Located at the Avery Fisher Hall Mainstage. -
Re your comments on the La Gioconda libretto (which admittedly is terrible and illogical). I have now read the play that was the source of the story: Victor Hugo’s ANGELO, TYRANT OF PADUA. While the names and some of the professions have been changed, and while that plot is even more fantastic in its way, it is a paragon of clarity compared to what Boito did to it. Once you have read the play, the opera is far more understandable — and so is the fact that Boito had a long way to go before being able to triumph with Otello and Falstaff. No wonder he had so many problems with his own operas!
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Thanks, Clare, I really did wonder about just that possibility, but didn’t have the time to track down the play and read it beforehand.
Night After Night 
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