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Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo In Maschera 2002 (1992) DVD Three acts melodrama / Conductor: James Levine / Libretto by Antonio Somma / Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Florence Quivar, Harolyn Blackwell / Deutsche Grammophon
UPC 0044007302996
REGION 0 (worldwide) PAL DVD
MADE IN EU
AUDIO: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM stereo
Subtitles: English, German, Italian (Original language), French, Spanish, Chinese
TOTAL TIME: 137 MINUTES
English Summary:
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him.
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.
French Summary:
Melodramma en trois actes
Enregistrement public
Livret: Antonio Somma d'après Eugène Scribe
German Summary:
Melodrama in drei akten
Live-Mitschnitt
Libretto: Antonio Somma nach Eugène Scribe
Roles:
Gustavo III
Renato Anckarström
Amelia
Ulrica
Oscar
Christiano
Horn
Ribbing
Un Guidice
Un servo di Amelia
Sänger / Singers:
Luciano Pavarotti (appears by kind permission of The Decca Record Company ltd)
Leo Nucci
Aprile Millo
Florence Quivar
Harolyn Blackwell
Gordon Hawkins
Terry Cook
Jeffrey Wells
Charles Anthony
Richard Fracker
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Dirigent / Conductor: James Levine
Artistic Director: James Levine
Executive-Producer – Peter Gelb
Film Director [Video Director] – Brian Large
Producer [Audio Producer] – Jay David Saks