At The Opera, Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (Live MET 1955), March 26, 2022
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Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma.
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.
Cast:
Riccardo - Jan Peerce
Amelia - Zinka Milanov
Renato - Robert Merrill
Oscar - Roberta Peters
Sam - Giorgio Tozzi
Tom - Norman Scott
Judge - James McCracken
Silvano - Calvin Marsh
Servant - Charles Anthony
MET Orchestra and Chorus
Dimitri Mitropoulos - conductor
LIVE 1955
8:00 p.m.
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