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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: Un Ballo in Maschera. Charles Castronovo Gives Stellar Performance in David Alden’s Lamentable Production. By Francisco Salazar. (Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is in the midst of reviving “Un Ballo in Maschera” for the first time since 2015.
Nov 2, 2023 · Review: Verdi’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at the Metropolitan Opera | Observer. Arts • Opera. Musicality Shines in ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at the Met. The opera, with its bare-bones...
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Jul 6, 2023 · Last modified on Thu 6 Jul 2023 17.24 EDT. N ew bespoke opera releases are rare commodities nowadays, and this is apparently the first studio sourced version of Verdi’s tragicomedy since the mid ...
Oct 21, 2023 · Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera. Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera returned to the Metropolitan Opera in David Alden’s baffling new production. Whatever this revival lacks in coherency, however, is outweighed by the fine cast which the Met assembled under the baton of Carlo Rizzi. The action is set in Stockholm in what appears to be the 1930s.
Composed in the middle of Giuseppe Verdi’s prolific career, Un Ballo in Maschera is replete with the kind of passionate vocal outpourings that make his earlier works so compelling but also shows signs of the composer’s musical evolution—which would reach its fruition in the later masterpieces Otello and Falstaff. The opera’s story came ...
Nov 9, 2012 · A music review on Saturday about the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Un Ballo in Maschera” by Verdi, which includes as part of the set a large mural of the mythological Icarus ...
Dec 10, 2012 · Un ballo in maschera is a marvellous showcase for Verdi’s unique ability to create transcendently beautiful music which is perfectly married to the dramatic action and lavishly daubed with orchestral colour.
