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LA FURA DELS BAUS                                 Un ballo in Maschera

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2015

Giuseppe Verdi
 

‘È scherzo od è follia ?’ A joke or pure madness, or is one really looking into the future in Un Ballo in maschera ? This work is a masterpiece of variety,of the fusion of differing stylistic elements, a work that relates firstto the French opera comique and then to the Italian dramatic style, with characters who are among the most powerful Verdi ever created. The censor forced Verdi to switch from the original historical context – the murder of the Swedish king during a masked ball in 1792 – to the Boston of the 17th century, but his human and political message is no less forceful. The director Alex Ollé and his company La Fura dels Baus set the action in the near future, in the atmosphere of Orwell’s 1984, where power is totalitarian, while all the characters wear their masks throughout the performance in a bankrupt society founded on hypocrisy.

Stage Director : Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus)

Set design : Alfons Flores

Conductor : Carlo Rizzi

Production from 2015Co-Production La Monnaie / De Munt, Opera Australia (Sydney), Den Norske Opera (Oslo), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires)

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