Name: Un ballo in maschera
Start: 2018-10-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-07-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Mikhailovsky Theater

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Organization

Tenor

Giorgi Sturua

Richard

Baritone

Alexander Kuznetsov

Renato

Soprano

Maria Litke

Amelia

Contralto

Olesya Petrova

Ulrica

Conductor

Yulia Prokhorova

Arvo Volmer

Stage director

Andrejs Žagars

Set designer

Andris Freibergs

Costume designer

Kristīne Pasternaka

Mikhailovsky Theatre

Italian

Un ballo in maschera -  (A Masked Ball)

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Mikhailovsky Theater

Un ballo in maschera Verdi

A Masked Ball

Russian

Approved

Un ballo in maschera is one of Giuseppe Verdi’s crowning achievements. The opera is distinguished by the beauty of its vocal parts, the expressiveness of its ensemble singing, the brilliance of the orchestration, and by what Russian theatre historians often call ’Shakespearian might’. Verdi has constructed a musical drama around a series of contrasting moods, leavened the mysterious and gloomy scenes with a light lyricism, and framed the tragic denouement in the energetic gaiety of a costumed ball.

At the heart of the fable is a story of political conspiracy which gets mixed up with personal revenge. Since the opera’s libretto had to undergo a series of rewritings due to censorship, today’s producers are at liberty to choose the time and place in which the opera takes place, in keeping with their own artistic concept. In the Mikhailovsky Theatre production, we see a story of the turn of the century: at the start of the 20th century, empires crumbled, and a familiar way of life disappeared together with them.

English

A Masked Ball by Verdi, Fri 26 Apr 2019, From (2018/2019), Directed by Andrejs Žagars,, Conductor Yulia Prokhorova, Arvo Volmer, Mikhailovsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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