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Language. French. Premiere. 27 February 1833. ( 1833-02-27) Salle Le Peletier, Paris. Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué ( Gustavus III, or The Masked Ball) is an opéra historique or grand opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe .
Aug 5, 2018 · Gustave III has one of Scribe’s cleverest, tightest plots, full of surprises and reversals, and one of Auber’s richest scores. It was Auber’s second grand opera, five years after the sensational success of La muette de Portici.
Gustavo III is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto begun in early 1857 by the Italian playwright Antonio Somma. Never performed as written, the libretto was later revised (or proposed to be revised) several times under two additional names – Una vendetta in dominò and Adelia degli Adimari – during which the setting was changed to ...
The Royal Swedish Opera is Sweden’s national theatre for opera and ballet. It has served in that role since January 18, 1773, when the first performance was given at the Royal Opera. A couple of years prior to that, in 1771, King Gustav III had fired the French opera troupe that had been performing at Bollhuset by Slottsbacken in Stockholm ...
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]
Feb 14, 2024 · Un Ballo in Maschera is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed 1857-1859, as Gustavo III, the Swedish King, assassinated at a Ball at the Royal Opera in Stockholm in 1792. Knowing anything about the Italian situation in those years, you should immediately foresee huge problems with censorship.
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The Real Gustav III Professor Jeremy Black looks at the history of Gustav III, King of Sweden, whose assassination provided the inspiration for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera . An unpredictable meteor, Gustavus, born into the house of Holstein-Gottorp, became King of Sweden in 1771 on the death of his lacklustre father, Adolf Fredrik.
