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Is part of the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli (Act III).


La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835. (This is the same source as Gaetano Rossi had used for his libretto for Mercadante's Il giuramento in 1837).


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"D'un vampiro fatal - l'ala fredda passò
E in teda funeral - ogni face mutò.
Un sinistro baglior - le fronti illuminò,
Più la gioia regnar - nella festa non può"