Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Part I

From the Leipzig Opera House, 2006

Chiara Taigi - soprano, Amelia
Massimiliano Pisapia - tenor, Riccardo
Riccardo Chailly - conductor
Eun Yee You Leipzig Ballet,
Choir of the Leipzig Opera

Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera

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Celebrate a double premier at the Leipzig Opera on November 14, 2005. Riccardo Chailly directs Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” for the first time in his function as General Music Director of the Leipzig Opera. “Un Ballo in Maschera” is as exciting as a thriller, but with a passion that can only be experienced in a Verdi opera. It stands to reason that only a man of equal passion would have the ability of bringing this spectacle to the stage adequately.

The Italian film director Ermanno Olmi born in Bergamo in 1931 is an exception in Italiancinema. His Films (The Legend of the Holy Drinker, The Tree of Wooden Clogs) have the effect of a cinematic revelation in that they contain a profound beauty rarely seen in contemporary film. The stage design is being created by the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodore. One can only wait for the first collaboration of these three Italian artists in Leipzig!