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Met opera repertoire 2019-2020
One of Verdi’s mature operas written between the “trilogy” of Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Il Trovatore and his final works, Un Ballo in Maschera is a superb drama about the fatal intersection of love and politics. The central story element is plain and direct. A king is in love with his best friend’s wife. The husband suspects that his wife has been unfaithful and he decides to kill the king at a masked ball. The story came from history—Sweden’s King Gustav III met his death at the hands of a political enemy during a masked ball at the Stockholm Opera House in 1792. French dramatist Eugène Scribe had written the first operatic version of this historical event for composer François Auber, whose work, Gustave III, had been given in Paris in 1833. Scribe’s version added the twist of a love triangle, and despite his poetic license with the facts, a number of curious details from the historical story made their way into the libretto: a medium named Ulrica Arvidsson warned the king about an assassination; he received an anonymous note alerting him of a plot on his life; and the conspirators identified the king by a pink ribbon on the cape of his costume.
Great cast of wonderful Verdi singers: Piotr Beczala, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
April 23, 28.
May 2, 6, 9.
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