Over the past few years, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has increasingly consolidated his grip on power. He has used violence to crack down on dissent. He's shut down newspapers and jailed ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with a historic broadcast of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda,” presented in honor of the 150th anniversary of the opera’s ...

Writer-director Randy Schulman breaks theatrical ground in “La Gioconda,” his frequently brilliant world-premiere piece at Stages Theater Center. Set in Italy -- and later France -- in 1911, “La ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. To paraphrase Bill Clinton’s 1992 election campaign message, “It’s the voices, stupid.” The expression seems made for ...

Leonardo Da Vinci's portrait of La Gioconda, more familiarly known as the Mona Lisa has fascinated many writers, her famously inscrutable half-smile a powerful stimulus for imaginative interpretation, ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In a new staging at La Scala, “La Gioconda” will capture the full range of human emotion in a dreamlike Venice, with dashes of Kubrick and Fellini. By ...

We have seen foreign invasions in Bollywood every now and then, but this one takes the cake. She has also become synonymous with many shows happening across India. Not many know that Gioconda happens ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Nicaraguan poet and political activist Gioconda Belli about the increasing tension in Nicaragua, as the country moves towards a presidential election. Nicaragua ...

Stay tuned and make yourself fit to dance the new song by Gioconda Vessichelli 'Contigo Bom Bom' in a sexi Latino beat with a flavour of Indian music and with one Gioconda's unmissable line in Opera ...