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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.
- Italian
- 17 February 1859, Teatro Apollo, Rome
Un Ballo in Maschera. This production ran: Oct 20 - Nov 18. This production is in the past. $25 rush tickets are available for every performance and go on sale for Monday through Friday evening performances at noon, for matinees four hours before curtain, and for Saturday evenings at 2:00PM.
Un ballo in maschera, opera in three acts by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (Italian libretto by Antonio Somma) that premiered at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on February 17, 1859. The Italian libretto was hastily adapted from French dramatist Eugène Scribe’s libretto Gustave III; ou, le bal masqué,
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Jun 7, 2022 · What to know about ‘Un ballo in maschera’. June 07, 2022 — ‹ 5 min read. Before its premiere in 1859, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera underwent a series of transformations, mainly due to political censorship, which moved the original setting of Sweden in 1792 to a century earlier in Boston.
Love triangles like this have been a staple of opera since the very beginning; throw in a murderous conspiracy and a mysterious fortune teller, and you have the ingredients for Un Ballo in Maschera. Based loosely on historical events, the opera tells the story of Gustav III, King of Sweden, his assassination by an aggrieved nobleman called ...
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.
