Name: Un ballo in maschera
Start: 2011-10-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-10-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Regio

Organization

Тенор

Hector Sandoval

Рикардо

Баритон

Carlo Guelfi

Ренато

Soprano

Kristin Lewis

Амелия

Контральто

Nicole Piccolomini

Ульрика

Serena Gamberoni

Оскар

Бас

Filippo Polinelli

Сильвано

Antonio Barbagallo

Том

Enrico Rinaldo

Самуэль

Cosimo Vassallo

Судья

Дирижер

Gianluigi Gelmetti

Режиссер-постановщик

Massimo Gasparòn

Художник по костюмам

Pier Luigi Samaritani

Художник-постановщик

Хореограф

Roberto Maria Pizzuto

Enrico Paolillo

Слуга Амелии

Teatro Regio di Parma

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma

Un ballo in maschera -  (Бал-маскарад)

Парма

Италия

Teatro Regio

Boston, late 17th century. A group of conspirators plan to overthrow Governor Riccardo. He has an affair with Amelia, the wife of his confidant and secretary Renato. During a nocturnal rendezvous in a lonely area, Riccardo is about to be attacked and murdered. Renato warns him and escorts the veiled Amelia home. When the secret is revealed, Renato swears revenge and arranges to meet the governor's opponents. The conspirators learn from the page Oskar in which costume Riccardo will appear at the masked ball...

In March 1792, the Swedish king Gustav III. murdered during a masked ball in Stockholm. Eugène Scribe brought the tragic event, enriched with a love story, to the theater stage, his play was set to music by Auber in 1833. When Verdi was commissioned to write an opera by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1856, he drew on the story and had Antonio Somma rework the libretto according to his requirements. In the meantime, however, there had been assassination attempts on kings Ferdinand II and Napoleon III. had been committed, and the censorship in Naples rejected the opera: a regicide was not allowed to be shown on the stage. In order to save the performance, Verdi agrees to move the action outside of Europe: now the governor of Boston becomes the victim of an intrigue.
The opera was finally premiered in Rome in 1859. The music of both versions is the same - apart from small differences such as "Conte" (Count) instead of "Re" (King) - and is among the best that Verdi wrote for the operatic stage. Although the form of the opera is strictly divided into "numbers" such as aria, duet, etc., it achieves gripping drama, and the high quality of the music makes it easy to overlook some of the libretto's shortcomings.
For a long time, "Un ballo in maschera" was performed exclusively with the action taking place in America. It was not until the middle of the 20th century that a return to the original Stockholm setting followed. But the story set in the USA is also performed - as in this production from the Teatro Regio di Parma.

Massimo Gasparon's production goes back to a production by the Italian director, stage and costume designer Pierluigi Samaritani (1942-1994).

Un ballo in maschera Verdi

Public

Бал-маскарад

Одобрено

Участие в выступлениях (Исполнители и постановщики )

Исполнители

Постановочная труппа

Ансамбль