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Stage director

Andrejs Žagars

Set designer

Andris Freibergs

Costume designer

Kristīne Pasternaka

Conductor

Peter Feranec

Lighting designer

Kevin Wyn-Jones

Choreographer

Elita Bukowska

Chorus master

Vladimir Stolpovskikh

Singer

Tenor

Sergey Kuzmin

Richard

Soprano

Veronika Dzhioeva

Amelia

Baritone

Dmitry Darov

Renato

Contralto

Olesya Petrova

Ulrica

Alexander Soloviev

Mikhailovsky Theatre

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Un ballo in maschera -  (A Masked Ball)

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Mikhailovsky Theater

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Un ballo in maschera Verdi

A Masked Ball

Russian

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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, From (2020/2021), Directed by Andrejs Žagars,, Conductor Peter Feranec, Alexander Soloviev, Mikhailovsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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