Verdi: Gustavo III (Un ballo in Maschera)

Piero Pretti (Gustavo III), Anna Pirozzi (Amelia), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Anckastrom), Anna Maria Chiuri (Madame Arvidson), Giuliana Gianfaldoni (Oscar)

Filarmonia Arturo Toscanini, Roberto Abbado, Jacopo Spirei On A Project By Graham Vick

Impressive conducting from Roberto Abbado and his choral and orchestral forces; but don’t expect a completely different score from the one you already know. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Picture and Sound) More…

Release Date: 16th Sep 2022
Catalogue No: 37937
Label: Dynamic

Verdi: Gustavo III

Piero Pretti (Gustavo III), Anna Pirozzi (Amelia), Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Anckastrom), Anna Maria Chiuri (Madame Arvidson), Giuliana Gianfaldoni (Oscar), Fabio Previati (Cristiano), Fabrizio Beggi (Ribbing), Carlo Cigni (Dehorn), Jacopo Spirei (director)
Filarmonia Arturo Toscanini
Roberto Abbado

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The composition of Un ballo in Maschera caused Verdi many problems. What began as an opera called Gustavo III was subject to censorship by the Neapolitan and Roman authorities, so its libretto, location and title all changed. The subject, however, is still the murder of Riccardo (Gustavo) at the masked ball, couched in a musical language in which the seriousness of Italian opera is infused with French vivacity. The opera’s structure is carefully symmetrical in the great terzets, and the themes of duty, pleasure, drama and humour are rendered with masterful clarity.

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Christmas Issue 2022

Impressive conducting from Roberto Abbado and his choral and orchestral forces; but don’t expect a completely different score from the one you already know.

December 2022

what really makes this release so recommendable is a cast that would grace the stage of any major opera house.

January 2023

With Abbado ensuring momentum without ever forcing the pace, good choral and orchestral playing, and well-balanced, crystalline Blu-ray sound from Dynamic, this Gustavo III provides great vocal pleasure, plus some visual fun,

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