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Ponchielli: La Gioconda. (Opera and Oratorio).(Sound Recording Review)
[] Urmana, d'Intino, Fiorillo; Domingo, Ataneli, Scandiuzzi; Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Children's Choir and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Viotti. Libretto and translations. EMI Classics 5 57451 2
When the now-classic Maria Callas stereo Gioconda was released, one critic wrote that it starred "Callas and ???" Surprisingly worthy, if no classic, EMI's new set (the first studio version of Ponchielli's "six-star vehicle" in more than two decades) clearly arose when someone noticed that Placido Domingo's prodigious recorded legacy lacked an Enzo. The role has figured modestly in the tenor's career: fewer than twenty performances, starting in Madrid in 1970 and ending in Vienna's 1986 production with Eva Marton, preserved on videotape. Domingo has admitted in interviews that he could probably no longer negotiate the role in the theater, but he does remarkably well by it here, sounding very much his musical, full-throated self. One notes the pressured approach to the highest-lying passages (never his glory) and a certain want of verbal elegance when set beside Bergonzi's or Pavarotti's account. But kudos are due.
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