La Gioconda

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is a a French play in five acts written Victor Hugo (1802-1885)[1].

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as Angelo, Tyrant of Padua

Il Giuramento, an opera Mercadante used a libretto by Gaetano Rossi, based on Hugo's novel. The opera was first performed in 1837. .

La Gioconda, the well-known opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli, with an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio) was also based on Hugo's play. , First performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 8 April 1876, Ponchielli revised the work several times and it was especially successful in its third and final version, performed at the same theatre on 28 March 1880, opening in the USA at the Metropolitan Opera on 20 December 1883.

Performance history in South Africa

Listed below are all the various versions of the original play by Hugo, including the two operas.

1893-4: Performed by the Lyric Opera Company on tour in South Africa, including performances in the Opera House, Cape Town.

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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