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3October
19:00
2018 | Wednesday
Giuseppe Verdi "Un Ballo in Maschera" (opera in 3 acts)
Opera
Bolshoi theatre - Historic Stage, Moscow
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World premiere: Bolshoi theatre, Moscow, Russia, 20 April 2018

Giuseppe Verdi set aside his project of adapting King Lear – never to be completed – to create the opera that would eventually become Un ballo in maschera. He selected a pre-existing libretto by Eugène Scribe (originally created for French composer Daniel Auber) on the story of the reformist Swedish king Gustav III, who was assassinated at a masked ball in 1792. The subject was not at all to the taste of the notoriously prickly censors in Naples, who in addition to wanting the setting and period changed demanded that the murder take place offstage. Verdi angrily refused, and sought another theatre to stage the work. The considerably more liberal Teatro Apollo in Rome still insisted a fictional setting be used; Verdi had little choice but to relent, and transformed King Gustav into Riccardo, governor of Boston. The opera was first performed on 17 February 1859 and was an immediate success.

Opera company: Bolshoi Opera
Conductor: Paolo Carignani
Baritone: Aluda Todua
Baritone: Maxim Aniskin
Baritone: Yuri Syrov
Mezzo soprano: Yelena Manistina
Soprano: Anna Nechaeva
Soprano: Nina Minasyan
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