Name: Un ballo in maschera
Start: 2011-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Fiorenza Cedolins

Amelia

Contralto

Yvonne Naef

Ulrica

Sen Guo

Oscar

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

Richard

Baritone

Vladimir Stoyanov

Renato

Bass

Thomas Tatzl

Silvano

Andreas Hörl

Giuseppe Scorsin

Samuel

Miroslav Christoff

A judge

Shinya Kitajima

A servant of Amelia

Conductor

Nello Santi

Stage director

David Pountney

Set designer

Raimund Bauer

Costume designer

Marie-Jeanne Lecca

Lighting designer

Jürgen Hoffmann

Choreographer

Beate Vollack

Chorus master

Jürg Hämmerli

Opernhaus Zürich

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Un ballo in maschera -  (A Masked Ball)

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A Masked Ball

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Conductor - Nello Santi Staging - David Pountney Stage design - Raimund Bauer Costumes - Marie-Jeanne Lecca Lighting design - Jürgen Hoffmann Choir master - Jürg Hämmerli Choreography - Beate Vollack Orchestra - Orchestra of the Zurich Opera Choir - Choir of the Zurich Opera Ballet - extra ballet With Fiorenza Cedolins (Amelia), Yvonne Naef (Ulrica Arvidson), Sen Guo (Oscar); Piotr Beczala (Gustavo III), Vladimir Stoyanov (Anckarstroem), Thomas Tatzl (Cristiano), Andreas Hörl (Graf Ribbing), Giuseppe Scorsin (Graf Horn), Miroslav Christoff (a judge), Shinya Kitajima (a servant of Amelia) The assassination of the Swedish King Gustav III. In 1792 by a group of aristocrats who had conspired against him at a masked ball in Stockholm first found its way onto the opera stage in a setting by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber. Eugène Scribe wrote the libretto in 1833. 25 years later, Verdi asked the Venetian playwright Antonio Somma to edit the text for a work that he was to write for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. The premiere, however, failed because of the Neapolitan censorship, which had already caused problems for Verdi in the case of "Luisa Miller". This time the now world-famous composer was no longer ready to allow far-reaching interventions and instead gave the world premiere to the Teatro Apollo in Rome, where the opera was a triumph in 1859. In the Papal States, too, the censorship authority did not want to see the murder of a European monarch portrayed on the open stage; so the action was relocated to 17th century Puritan Boston. In the new Zurich staging, the story is transported back to the historical place where it happened. The core of the opera, however, does not depend on such fixations: disguise and masquerade are omnipresent. The tragic love story between the Swedish king Gustavo and Amelia, the wife of his best friend, is woven into this game within the game. It ends with the regent being killed by Amelia's jealous husband Renato Anckarstroem at the moment when he renounces the forbidden passion. Not only the circumstances of the murder at the eponymous masked ball, but also characters like the fortune teller Ulrica Arvidson or the page Oscar make the opera a dazzling piece in which rousing passion alternates with ironic brokenness and comedy and tragedy interpenetrate. With Nello Santi at the podium, a musical Verdi festival is guaranteed, the scenic shape of which bears the always idiosyncratic signature of David Pountney.

A MASKED DANCE - VERDI

A Masked Ball by Verdi, Mon 25 Apr 2011, From (2011/2011), Directed by David Pountney,, Conductor Nello Santi, Opernhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

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