Eileen Farrell sings Ponchielli’s "Suicidio" - 1960

From a 1960 telecast entitled “Ford Presents: The Creative Performer“ written and presented by Leonard Bernstein and featuring Glenn Gould, Eileen Farrell and Igor Stravinsky. Here is an excerpt from that program with Eileen Farrell and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Bernstein, performing the Act IV aria from Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda“. Here is a link to the entire program: And here is a link to one of my many Eileen Farrell playlists: #grid/user/D14015D28B8E750A In 1994 Farrell was quoted as saying: “As far as I’m concerned, all opera librettos are pretty crazy. The funniest story of all is La Gioconda. In the first act she’s with her mother, and in the second scene she can’t find her mother, and already it’s the fourth act and she’s ready to take the poison and remembers she still hasn’t found her mother. “