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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
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Synopsis
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.
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Plácido Domingo
as Gustavo III
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Josephine Barstow
as Amelia
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Leo Nucci
as Count Anckarström
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Florence Quivar
as Madame Arvidson
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Sumi Jo
as Oscar
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Kurt Rydl
as Ribbing
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Georg Solti
as Conductor
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