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Un ballo in mascheraopera in three acts Music: Giuseppe Verdi Libretto: Àntonio Somma, Francesco Maria Piave Musical Director of the production: Peter Feranec Stage Director: Andrejs Zagars Stage Designer: Andris Freibergs Costume Designer: Kristine Pasternaka Production Engineer: Alla Marusina Lighting Designer: Kevin W. Jones Principal Chorus Master: Vladimir Stolpovskikh Choreography: Elita Bukovska Stage Director Assistant: Dace Wohlfahrte Associate Stage Director: Yulia Prokhorova Assistant Director: Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny Chorus Masters: Sergey Tsyplyonkov, Alexey Dmitriyev Assistant Conductor: Mikhail Leontyev Rehearsal Conductor: Andrey Velikanov Musical Style and Language Coach: Paolo di Napoli Consultant in the Italian language: Daria Mitrofanova Stage Designer Assistant: Elena Zykova Principal Pianists: Natalya Dudik, Maria Mikirtumova Subtitles: Margarita Kunitsyna-Tankevich Stage Manager: Olga Kokh Assistant Stage Manager: Daria Panteleyeva Premiere of the production: July 21, 2010 Running time: 3 hours 20 minutes Performance has two intervals Performed in Italian (the performance will have synchronised Russian supertitles) The Mikhailovsky Theatre closed its 177th season with an opera premiere — a new production of Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) by Giuseppe Verdi. The assassination of Gustav III of Sweden in 1792 became the basis of many plays and operas, among them an opera libretto by Eugène Scribe, set by Giuseppe Verdi in 1859 as Un ballo in maschera. In order to become the Un ballo in maschera which we know today, Verdi’s opera was forced to undergo a series of transformations, caused by a combination of censorship regulations, as well as the political situation in France in 1858. Verdi retained the names of some of the historical figures involved, the conspiracy, and the killing at the masked ball. The rest of the play — the characterizations, the romance, the fortune-telling — is an invention and the opera is not historically accurate. Andrejs Zagars, a Latvian stage director, in cooperation with set designer Andris Freibergs and costume designer Kristine Pasternaka staged a new production of the opera at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. The public of St Petersburg saw a stylish and exciting piece which was a showcase for the best soloists of the Mikhailovsky Opera.
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