FULL UN BALLO IN MASCHERA Reggio Emilia 2023 Giorgio Berrugi, Devid Cecconi, Clarissa Costanzo, Alisa Kolosova
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Un ballo in maschera
- Composer: Verdi Giuseppe
- Libretto: Antonio Somma Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Recorded: March 19, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Giorgio Berrugi, Devid Cecconi, Clarissa Costanzo, Alisa Kolosova, Anna Maria Sarra, Chao Liu, Svetolik Belosliudov, Gaetano Triscari, Paolo Leonardi, Luca Favaron
- Conductor: ALESSANDRO D’AGOSTINI
- Orchestra: FILARMONICA DI PARMA
- Chorus: CORO LIRICO DI MODENA, VOCI BIANCHE DEL TEATRO COMUNALE DI MODENA
- Chorus Master: GIULIA MANICARDI, PAOLO GATTOLIN
- Choreographer: GINO POTENTE
- Stage Director: MASSIMO GASPARON
- Stage Designer: PIERLUIGI SAMARITANI
- Costume Designer: PIERLUIGI SAMARITANI
- Lighting Designer: ANDREA BORELLI
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OperaStreaming
- TV Director: Fabio Dolci
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, itsubs
- Video Recording from: mail.ru FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
According to Massimo Mila , a famous critic and musicologist, a masked ball is « Verdi ‘s Tristan and Isolde » . A sorceress predicts the king’s betrayal and assassination at the hands of her best friend. But the regicide could not be represented and the censorship raged, forcing an American setting (the protagonist, Riccardo, will end up being the count of Boston).
Massimo Gasparón, starting from the historic Parma staging of 1989, creates a new dramaturgical perspective of the characters through an emotional and empathic update, which is not superficially revealed only aesthetically. He writes in his director’s notes: «We could (…) define this as a revival with notable new scenographic and dramaturgical elements, an important opportunity to rediscover modernity through style and tradition, where the new must be born from the classic core of the melodramatic tradition . My directorial approach starts from the deep research of an ever more current sensibility. I also gave great importance to the esoteric and Luciferian component, which Verdi continually exalts: the number Three is continually pronounced and becomes a satanic mantra full of divinatory meanings».
«A masked ball – explains the conductor Alessandro D’Agostini – brings together so much diversity of stylistic registers, orchestral colors, depth of the characters, that a reflection on the general interpretative modalities of this work is essential. (…) What is the result of this research? Telling the public a story made up of human beings, of emotions and feelings common to each of us, alive and vibrant. Telling that each of us is a world, that each of us is capable of great deeds as well as great misery”.