September 19, 2015

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera - September 26, 2015

San Francisco Opera

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Broadcasts from the San Francisco Opera continue on Classical 90.5 at noon this Saturday, September 26, with a performance of Un Ballo in Maschera by Giuseppe Verdi, set to a libretto by Antonio Somma. The performance will be sung in Italian and will run approximately two and one-half hours. Nicola Luisotti conducts.

A Swedish king laughs off a fortune-teller’s warning of a plot against his life. But when his closest aide discovers the monarch is having an affair with his wife, the threat of assassination becomes real. This tuneful Verdi masterpiece, “one of the composer’s most hot-blooded and vividly crafted tales” (San Francisco Chronicle), returns with an outstanding cast led by the splendidly lyrical Ramón Vargas and the riveting Dolora Zajick. Amelia, the troubled king’s beloved, will be portrayed by the intensely passionate Julianna Di Giacomo in her San Francisco Opera Debut. Sharing the role of Amelia’s coldly furious husband will be two masterful baritones, Thomas Hampson and Brian Mulligan.

THE CAST
Riccard: Ramón Vargas
Amelia: Julianna Di Giacomo
Oscar: Heidi Stober
Renato: Thomas Hampson
Ulrica: Dolora Zajick
Tommaso: Scott Conner
Samuele: Christian Van Horn
Silvano: Efrain Solis
Judge: A.J. Glueckert
Amelia’s Servant: Christopher Jackson

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