Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Watch verdi: un ballo in maschera 123movies. 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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- Director: Brian Large, John Schlesinger
- Cast: Plácido Domingo, Josephine Barstow, Leo Nucci, Florence Quivar, Sumi Jo, Kurt Rydl, Georg Solti
