Review: Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera' at the Metropolitan Opera
Brilliantly sung but emotionally threadbare, David Alden’s production for the Met is carried by the music.
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A Masked Ball (Un Ballo in Maschera): Teatro Real/Madrid
Rated NR · 2 hr 10 min · 2008 Musical, Program This melodrama in three acts is one of Giuseppi Verdi's titles that has most been affected by censorship, first of all from the Bourbons in Napoli and then the Popes in Rome, until it was finally premièred at Teatro Apollo in Rome on 17th February 1859. The work, which is based on a real occurrence (the assassination of King Gustave III of Sweden by one of his most loyal ministers, Count Anckarström, during a masked ball), has already given rise to two operas by Daniel Auber ("Gustave III, ou le bal masque") and Saverio Merca...
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