Organization

Singer

Soprano

Maria Litke

Amelia

Baritone

Alexander Kuznetsov

Renato

Contralto

Anna Buslidze

Ulrica

Tenor

Sergey Kuzmin

Richard

Stage director

Andrejs Žagars

Conductor

Peter Feranec

Lighting designer

Kevin Wyn-Jones

Costume designer

Kristīne Pasternaka

Alla Marusina

Set designer

Andris Freibergs

Choreographer

Elita Bukowska

Chorus master

Vladimir Stolpovskikh

Alexey Dmitriev

Sergey Tsyplenkov

Pianist

Marc Vayner

Director

Yulia Prokhorova

Rehearsal Conductor

Andrey Velikanov

Mikhailovsky Theatre

Un ballo in maschera -  (A Masked Ball)

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Mikhailovsky Theater

Foyer

Un ballo in maschera Verdi

Public

A Masked Ball

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

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Program, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues