A MASKED BALL

melodrama in three acts
music by Giuseppe Verdi
libretto by Antonio Somma, based on Gustave III ou Le bal masqué by Eugène Scribe
with Carlo Raffaelli, Jun Young Choi, Alessia Battini, Ioanna Kykna, Yuer Ye, Maurizio Bove, Graziano Dallavalle, Diego Maffezzoni
conductor Andrea Solinas
director Roberto Catalano
OperaLombardia Chorus
I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano Orchestra
co-production Teatri di OperaLombardia

Thursday 28 January 2027, 6.00 pm | Sala Musica – Teatro Donizetti A DANCE BEFORE UNIFICATION: PASSIONS, CONSPIRACIES AND CENSORSHIPAround at A MASQUERADE BALLAlessandro Roccatagliati (University of Ferrara, Director of the Institute of Verdi Studies in Parma) in conversation with Candida Mantica and Livio Aragona (Donizetti Studies Centre of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation) with visual material curated by Clelia Epis and Maurizio Merisio Un ballo in maschera is one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most elegant and unsettling operas. It premiered in 1859, following a troubled journey with the censors, who shifted the setting from the Swedish court to an imaginary Boston….