Release Date: 1990-06-01
Overview: 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
Josephine Barstow
as Amelia
Leo Nucci
as Count Anckarström
Florence Quivar
as Madame Arvidson
Sumi Jo
as Oscar
Giuseppe Verdi - Compositor
Antonio Somma - Writer
Brian Large - Director
John Schlesinger - Director
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