Name: Un ballo in maschera
Start: 2001-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2001-05-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro alla Scala

Organization

Tenore

Salvatore Licitra

Riccardo

Baritono

Bruno Caproni

Renato

Soprano

Maria Guleghina

Amelia

Oriana Kurteshi

Oscar

Direzione d'orchestra

Riccardo Muti

Philippe Auguin

Regia

Liliana Cavani

Scenografia

Dante Ferretti

Costumi

Gabriella Pescucci

Coreografia

Micha van Hoecke

Direzione del coro

Roberto Gabbiani

Contralto

Mariana Pentcheva

Ulrica

Basso

Piero Terranova

Silvano

Giovanni Battista Parodi

Samuel

Giancarlo Boldrini

Ernesto Gavazzi

Un Giudice

Ernesto Panariello

Un Servo d'Amelia

Teatro alla Scala

Others

Coro del Teatro alla Scala

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Un ballo in maschera

Milano

Italia

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué.[1]

Transported by the baton of Riccardo Muti and the best singers, a memorable Masked Ball at the Scala in Milan.

Conducted by Riccardo Muti, the master of the Scala in Milan for twenty years (1986 to 2005), the Verdian melodrama unfolds before our eyes directed by Liliana Cavani. This production, recorded live in 2001, is ageless, Cavani's approach being that of timeless tradition: pasteboard and period costumes triumph as if to prove that nothing changes at the Scala.

In any case, musical excellence is pre-eminent as usual: to start with, the role of Riccardo is played by the wonderful Salvatore Licitra who began his career as a tenor precisely with A Masked Ball, in Parma, in 1998. As for Maria Guleghina, she plays an exceptionally good Amelia. The orchestra and chorus of the Scala, as well as all of the soloists, are transported by Riccardo Muti's passionate and contrasted conducting, proving once again what a wonderful Verdian he is.

Libretto by Antonio Somma taken from Gustave III ou Le bal masqué by Eugenio Scribe

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