“Excellent Anna Pirozzi, she plays a well moulded Gioconda, between sensitivity and volition – to the point of sacrifice – throughout the opera, with an emotional peak in the warmly applauded last act scene”. – Il Giornale della Musica

“[…]An illustrious debutante, not in the title role as on the Etnean stage, soprano Anna Pirozzi, was able to express her own particular conception of the character of Gioconda. Pirozzi’s interpretation, in fact, leaned more towards the human side of the Venetian singer’s generosity than the aggressiveness of her possessive jealousy, and modelled a character more sweet than predatory, more religious than passionate. A reading that was expressed in a soft, well modulated singing that had every requirement for the optimal rendering of the title role.”- Opera e opera