Name: Un ballo in maschera
Start: 2021-12-04
End: 2021-12-04
Location: Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House)

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Matteo Lippi

Richard

Soprano

Gisela Stille

Amelia

Li Keng

Baritone

Johan Reuter

Renato

Contralto

Johanne Bock

Ulrica

Rainelle Krause

Oscar

Bass

Henning von Schulman

Samuel

Stage director

Karolina Sofulak

Conductor

Paolo Carignani

Lighting designer

Giuseppe di Iorio

Costume designer

Jonathan Morrell

Set designer

Alex Eales

Renate Ekerhovd

Filippo Bettoschi

Vladimir Stoyanov

Matilde Wallevik

Sakarias Fredriksen Tranvåg

Silvano

Nils Gustén

Lukas Christian Noerbel

A judge

Carl Rahmqvist

William Ottow

A servant of Amelia

Kenneth Reid

Royal Danish Opera

Den Norske Opera & Ballet

Orchestra

Det Kongelige Kapel

Others

Det Kongelige Operakor

Italian

Un ballo in maschera -  (A Masked Ball)

Copenhagen

Denmark

Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House)

Store Scene

Un ballo in maschera Verdi

Public

A Masked Ball

Danish

Approved

The opera's tradition of new productions of well-known Verdio operas is now continued with the Masked Ballet about the assassination of Gustav III.

The politically interested Verdi was under pressure when he composed the Masked Ballet . A realistic assassination was fairly harsh diet for censorship in Naples because the real Napoleon III had been assassinated. Verdi therefore had to make several versions of the opera. Appropriate to our northern latitudes, director Karolina Sofulak presents Verdi's original version of the historic assassination of Swedish King Gustav III in 1792.

Emotional, mood-saturated music accompanies the central triangular drama, for the king is in love with his best friend's wife Amelia. The Reumert-awarded Verdi interpreter, Gisela Stille, like Amelia in Maskeballet , also has a hard time resisting the charming Gustav III sung by the tenor Matteo Lippi, even though she is married to the powerful Anckarström in the person of Johan Reuters.

Unrequited love, jealousy and strong emotions are among Verdi's specialties, and the Royal Chapel's Italian 1st guest conductor, Paolo Carignani, provides Italian sparkle and glow from the orchestra pit.

English

A Masked Ball by Verdi, Sat 04 Dec 2021, From (2021/2022), Directed by Karolina Sofulak,, Conductor Paolo Carignani, Operaen (Copenhagen Opera House), Copenhagen, Denmark

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