VERDI Gustavo III (Un ballo in Maschera) - Trailer [2021 Festival Verdi 2021, Teatro Regio di Parma]

The composition of Un Ballo in Maschera caused Verdi many problems. What began as an opera called Gustavo III was subject to censorship by the Neapolitan and Roman authorities, so its libretto, location and title all changed. The subject, however, is still the murder of Riccardo (Gustavo) at the masked ball, couched in a musical language in which the seriousness of Italian opera is infused with French vivacity. The opera’s structure is carefully symmetrical in the great terzets, and the themes of duty, pleasure, drama and humour are rendered with masterful clarity.

Available in DVD (37937)/ Blu-ray (57937) / CDS7937.03

Recording place: Festival Verdi 2021, Teatro Regio di Parma
Recording date: September 24th, 2021

Conductor: Roberto Abbado
Orchestra Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra Rapsody
Chorus: Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma
Chorus Master: Martino Faggiani
Director: Jacopo Spirei, on a project by Graham Vick
Set and costume designer: Richard Hudson
Lights designer: Giuseppe Di Iorio
Coreographer: Virginia Spallarossa

Cast:
Gustavo III, Piero Pretti, tenor
Amelia, Anna Pirozzi, soprano
Il Conte Gian Giacomo Anckastrom, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, baritone
Ulrica, Anna Maria Chiuri, mezzo-soprano
Oscar, Giuliana Gianfaldoni, soprano
Cristiano, Fabio Previati, baritone
Ribbing, Fabrizio Beggi, bass
Dehorn, Carlo Cigni, bass
Il ministro di giustizia, Cristiano Olivieri, tenor
Un servo del Conte, Federico Veltri, tenor

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