Basic Info
Release: June 01, 1990
Runtime: 145 min
Status: Released
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
1990
145 min
Overview
Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué. The plot concerns the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden who was shot, as the result of a political conspiracy, while attending a masked ball, dying of his wounds thirteen days later.
Production Countries
- Austria
Spoken Languages
- Italian it
Flatrate
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Cast
Plácido Domingo
Gustavo III
Josephine Barstow
Amelia
Leo Nucci
Count Anckarström
Florence Quivar
Madame Arvidson
Sumi Jo
Oscar
Kurt Rydl
Ribbing
Georg Solti
Conductor
Crew
Brian Large
Director
John Schlesinger
Director
Antonio Somma
Writer
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