Opera

Un ballo in maschera

Giuseppe Verdi

16 Sep, 20 - 14 Oct, 20

Musical conductor: Nicola Luisotti, Lorenzo Passerini | Stage director: Gianmaria Aliverta | Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

Un ballo in maschera

14 JUL. 20

Start selling day

18 Sep 20

Premiere Date

14 Oct 20

Last performance

15

Performances

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Gustavo III and Una vendetta in Domino were the two titles given this opera for the three years it remained in the offices of the Neapolitan censors. In 1859, the title became Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball). The previous year, bombs were thrown by three Italian nationalists while Emperor Napoleon III was on the way  to a performance of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. This certainly influenced the severity of the censors who were reluctant to allow the staging of the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, as narrated in Verdis libretto. The result is a musical score of contrasts which, while maintaining the immediacy of the masterpieces of the composers middle period, goes further by exploring dramatic and musical registers which we encounter fully developed in his later works. The production which opens the season is by Gianmaria Aliverta from the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, it maintains the North American setting chosen by Verdis librettist as a solution to the vicissitudes imposed by strict censorship. Yet, far from adhering to it, the action is moved forward to the era of Abraham Lincoln, thereby focussing on the racial tensions and political idealism of this convulsive period.


Melodramma in three acts

Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Libretto by Antonio Somma, based on the libretto by Agustin Eugène Scribe Locle for the opera Gustave III, ou le bal masqué by Daniel Auber

Premiered at the Teatro Apollo of Rome, on the 17th of February, 1859
Premiered at the Teatro Real on the 6th of March, 1861

Production of the Teatro La Fenice of Venice. Revival in collaboration between the Teatro Real and the Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville.

Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
(Coro Intermezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)


Artistic Team

Conductor

  • | Nicola Luisotti - 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27 sep; 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11,13 oct
  • | Lorenzo Passerini - 29 sep; 14 oct

Stage Director | Gianmaria Aliverta

Set Designer | Massimo Checchetto

Costume Designer | Carlos Tieppo

Light Designer | Fabio Barettin

Associate Lighting Designer | Elisabetta Campanelli 

Choreographer | Silvia Giordano

Chorus Master | Andrés Máspero

 

Cast

Riccardo

  • | Michael Fabiano - 18, 23, 27 sep; 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 oct
  • | Ramón Vargas - 20, 25, 29 sep; 3, 6, 11, 14 oct

Amelia

  • | Anna Pirozzi - 18, 23, 27 sep; 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 oct
  • | Saioa Hernández - 16, 20, 25 sep.
  • | María Pia Piscitelli - 29 sep; 14 oct.
  • | Sondra Radvanovsky - 3, 6, 11 oct.

Renato

  • | Artur Ruciński - 18, 23, 27 sep; 1, 4, 7, 10 oct
  • | George Petean - 20, 25, 29 sep; 3, 6, 11, 13, 14 oct

Ulrica

  • | Daniela Barcellona - 18, 23, 27, 29 sep; 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 oct
  • | Silvia Beltrami - 16, 20, 25 sep; 3, 6, 11, 14 oct

Oscar

  • | Elena Sancho Pereg - 18, 23, 27 sep; 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 oct
  • | Isabella Gaudí - 20, 25, 29 sep; 3, 6, 11, 14 oct

Silvano | Tomeu Bibiloni

Samuel | Daniel Giulianini

Tom | Goderdzi Janelidze

A judge / Amelia's servant | Jorge Rodríguez-Norton

 

Language

Italian

Subtitles in

Spanish, English

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2020

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2020

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16 September 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

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18 September 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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20 September 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Ramón Vargas, Saioa Hernández , George Petean, Silvia Beltrami, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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23 September 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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25 September 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Ramón Vargas, Saioa Hernández , George Petean, Silvia Beltrami, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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27 September 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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29 September 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Ramón Vargas, George Petean, Daniela Barcellona, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
Subscription tickets B

01 October 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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03 October 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Ramón Vargas, George Petean, Silvia Beltrami, Sara Blanch, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
Subscription tickets G

04 October 2020

18:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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06 October 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Ramón Vargas, George Petean, Silvia Beltrami, Sara Blanch, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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07 October 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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10 October 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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11 October 2020

18:00

Main Auditorium

Ramón Vargas, George Petean, Silvia Beltrami, Sara Blanch, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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13 October 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Michael Fabiano, Anna Pirozzi, Artur Rucinski, Daniela Barcellona, Elena Sancho Pereg, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
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14 October 2020

20:00

Main Auditorium

Ramón Vargas, George Petean, Silvia Beltrami, Sara Blanch, Tomeu Bibiloni, Daniel Giulianini, Goderdzi Janelidze, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
Subscription tickets D

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