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Your search criteria were: Database searched-role Composer-Amilcare Ponchielli Voice Part-All Language-All "If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . . . The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni." -W.H. Auden View All Quotes

Laura

• Voice Part : mezzo-soprano   Fach : dramatic mezzo
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : wife of Laura
• Arias : Stella del marinar!

La Gioconda

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : dramatic soprano
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : a ballad singer, daughter of La Cieca
• Arias : Suicidio!

A Pilot

• Voice Part : bass
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : none

Enzo Grimaldo

• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : spinto
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : a Genoese nobleman
• Arias : Cielo e mar!

Duke Alvise Badoero

• Voice Part : bass   Fach : heavy bass
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : a leader of the Inquisition, husband of Laura
• Arias : Sì, morir ella de'!

La Cieca

• Voice Part : contralto   Fach : contralto
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : mother of La Gioconda
• Arias : Voce di donna

Barnaba

• Voice Part : baritone   Fach : dramatic baritone
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : a spy for the Inquisition
• Arias : O monumento!, Ah, pescator affonda l'esca

Zuane

• Voice Part : bass
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : a boatman

Isèpo

• Voice Part : tenor
• Opera : La Gioconda   Language : Italian
• Composer : Amilcare Ponchielli
• Description : a public letter writer