A tangled maze in which jealousy, fate and friendship play a fundamental role and in which Verdi’s music guides us through an enthralling story in which a monarch can disguise himself as a fisherman and a minuet can turn into a funeral march. Un ballo in maschera (Rome, Teatro Apollo, 1859) is certainly one of the composer’s most popular operas; it is also the one in which, based on the classical triangle of romantic melodrama (tenor-soprano-baritone) there are a great number of scenes that, by moving the axis of the action from the interior to the exterior in continuation, are a perfect mirror of the dualism that dominates the gestures of the protagonists in the drama, all of whom are perpetually divided between passion and duty.

 

 

Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of "the most famous and renowned landmarks in the history of Italian theatre", and in the history of opera as a whole. Especially in the 19th century, La Fenice became the site of many famous operatic premieres at which the works of several of the four major bel canto era composers – Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi – were performed.

 

 

Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Parma

 

Coro dell'Opera di Parma

 

Director: Gianmaria Aliverta

Conductor: Aldo Sisillo