Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Melodramma in three acts | Libretto: Antonio Somma, after the libretto by Eugène Scribe to »Gustave ou Le Bal masqué« (1833) by Daniel François Esprit Auber
premiere: 1859 in Rome
In Italian.
With supertitles.
Behind the glamorous opera title promising a lavish ball, the highly explosive story eröffnets: an assassination on offener stage. The real faces are hidden behind masks; it is about love, jealousy, intrigue, betrayal and murder. For Verdi's precise musical performance art, an ideal stoff to a "Dramma di sentimento": the power of human passions and feelings can overturn systems and change worlds at any time.
Source and further information: http://www.staatstheater-wiesbaden.de/programm/spielplan/ein-maskenball-2017-2018/4600/
