Mona Lisa or La Gioconda ( 1503 – 1505 / 1507 )— Louvre, Paris, France

The Disney film Fantasia featured a ballerina hippopotamus dancing to the opera La Gioconda.

* 1876: La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli

( Cotogni and Marconi had sung together in the first London performance of Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda in 1883, performing the roles of Barnaba and Enzo respectively.

* Barnaba, La Gioconda

The Mona Lisa ( La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo ) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as " the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.

Italian for " jocund ", " happy " or " jovial ", La Gioconda (" the jocund one ") was a pun on the feminine form of the sitter's married name Giocondo.

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His best known opera is La Gioconda, which his librettist Arrigo Boito adapted from the same play by Victor Hugo that had been previously set by Mercadante ( Il giuramento, 1837 ) and Carlos Gomes ( Fosca, 1873 ).

After La Gioconda, Ponchielli wrote the monumental biblical melodrama in four acts Il figliuol prodigo ( Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 26, 1880 ) and Marion Delorme, from another play by Victor Hugo ( Milan, Teatro alla Scala, March 17, 1885 ).

Although in his lifetime Ponchielli was very popular and influential, in introducing an enlarged orchestra and more complex orchestration, the only one of his operas regularly performed today is La Gioconda.

"' Circe ,' La Gioconda, and the Opera House of the Mind.

*" Metropolitan Opera: La Gioconda.

*" Ponchielli's Opera " La Gioconda "" The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular 21, no.

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" Opera around the World: Italy-Palermo: " La Gioconda "" Opera, 2011, 814.

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" La storia della Gioconda attraverso il carteggio Ponichielli-ricordi.

"" Dance of the Hours " from " La Gioconda " ( 1880 ).

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In Italy a cycle of Western comedies were initiated 1959 with La Sceriffa and Terrore dell ’ Oklahoma, followed by other films starring comedy specialists like Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi, Raimondo Vianello or Fernandel.

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* Centro: ( Downtown ) is located on the 7th District and comprises the center of La Paz and principal avenues of the city, like Arce Avenue, July 16 Avenue ( also known as " Prado Avenue "), Mariscal Santa Cruz Avenue and Camacho Avenue, this last one being the home of the headquarters of the principal banks and companies of the country.

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