Eve Queler (above) conducts the Opera Orchestra of New York in a concert performance of Ponchielli's LA GIOCONDA at Carnegie Hall in May 1986. I was there!
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CAST: Ghena Dimitrova - La Gioconda; Diane Curry - La Cieca; Mark Watson - Zuane; Randall Hartness - Isepo; Giorgio Lamberti - Enzo Grimaldo; Alexandrina Milcheva - Laura; Paul Plishka - Alvise Badoero; Piero Cappuccilli - Barnaba; Frank Barr - Monk/2nd Cantore; Roger Ohlsen - 1st Cantore