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The Met Live in HD: Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera
Verdi’s vivid drama of jealousy and vengeance
will be seen in a new production by acclaimed opera director David Alden, returning to the Met for
the first time in more than 20 years. Fabio
Luisi conducts his first Met performances of the opera, which stars Sondra Radvanovsky as
Amelia, Marcelo Álvarez as Gustavo
III, Dmitri Hvorostovsky as
Anckarström, Stephanie Blythe as the
fortuneteller Ulrica, and Kathleen Kim as
the page Oscar. Alden, whose production is set in a dreamlike, early 20th-century
Swedish environment, says that "Un Ballo
in Maschera is one of Verdi’s greatest and most brilliant scores, with a
variety of different colors. It alternates between the light and the intensely
melodramatic. Verdi pulls it all together with unbelievable theatrical energy. Ballo is theatrical dynamite.”
Approximate running time: 3 hrs 40 mins (including two intermissions)
Tickets: $24 Adults / $22 Seniors / $5 Youth 18 and under (Day of Event Only)
There will be a special pre-opera talk by Morton Achter at 11:45am entitled "Behind
the 'Masks' in Verdi's A Masked Ball, or, Let's Have a Ball in
Boston": Besides the actual
masks worn in the opera’s climatic ballroom scene, there are many other "masks”
employed in this opera: masked
intentions, masked feelings, and
perhaps the greatest "masking” of all having to do with the work’s genesis.
This is the fourth
season of The MET: Live in HD for which Morton Achter, a resident of New
Harbor, will present a series of pre-opera talks prior to selected broadcasts
at the Lincoln Theater. A retired
college professor, Dr. Achter has taught about and directed opera for over
forty-five years. Holding a Ph.D. in
music and theater history from the University of Michigan, he also has directed
for the Lincoln County Community Theater – most recently productions of Gypsy and Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid.
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