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