Composer
Librettist
Based On
the play "Angelo, Tyran de Padoue" by Victor Hugo
Company
San Francisco Opera Association Touring
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Venue
Shrine Auditorium
Season
1947
Language
Italian
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Set Designer(s)
Choreographer
Chorus Director
Cast
La Gioconda, a ballad singer
La Cieca, her blind mother
Alvise, a leader of the Inquisition
Laura Adorno, his wife
Enzo Grimaldo, a Genoese noble
Barnaba, a spy of the Inquisition
Zuane, a boatman
Cantor
Isepo, a public letter-writer
Pilot
Monk
Show Dates
Time and Place
Venice
Scenes
Act I -- Courtyard of Ducal Palace
Act II -- Lagoon near City -- Night
Act III, Scene 1 -- Room in Palace of Alvise
Scene 2 -- Great Hall in the Ca d'Oro
Act IV -- A Ruined Palace on an Island near Venice
Notes
Sets painted by Eugene Dunkel and constructed in the Studios of the San Francisco Opera Association
Corps de Ballet