From our special correspondent in Orange (Vaucluse)
Venice and its meanders… Who has never lost themselves in the winding streets?
Left surprised, at the end of some bridge, by the volte-faces of its heady waters?
Forced to turn back in the hope of seeing a little more clearly in this plan as Machiavellian as a schemer on a carnival evening?
Taken from the Hugolian drama
Angelo, tyrant of Padua
,
La Gioconda
, by Ponchielli, draws its setting - and its energy - from the changing atmospheres of the Serenissima.
Preferring the mysteries of the City of the Doges to the Padua arcades, it is in its image.
Labyrinthine.
Baroque as hell.
Inextricable.
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