A dispatch from the 2024 Salzburg Easter Festival: Celebrating mastery and orchestral brilliance La Gioconda is infrequently performed because of its complicated plot, demanding vocal requirements, giant choral forces, and complex staging. LUCA SALSI (Barnaba) and Anna Netrebko (La Gioconda) in Ponchielli’s ‘La Gioconda.’(photo credit: SF/Bernd Uhlig)
