[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":59},["ShallowReactive",2],{"opera-en-verdi-un-ballo-in-maschera":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"anno":6,"aria":7,"atti":10,"bio":20,"body":21,"compositore":28,"description":25,"extension":29,"finale":30,"meta":31,"navigation":32,"opere":20,"order":20,"path":33,"personaggi":34,"seo":55,"slug":20,"stem":56,"tagline":57,"years":20,"__hash__":58},"en/en/verdi/un-ballo-in-maschera.md","A Masked Ball","Rome, 1859",{"nome":8,"descrizione":9},"È scherzo od è follia","The governor laughs off a prophecy of death in a brilliant and cruel quintet. Verdi blends irony and tragedy with breathtaking mastery.",[11,14,17],{"titolo":12,"testo":13},"Act I — The Prophecy","Riccardo attends a session with the sorceress Ulrica in disguise. She predicts he will die at the hand of the first man to shake his hand that morning. Riccardo laughs. Then he shakes the hand of Renato, his best friend, who has come to find him. Everyone laughs. Ulrica does not.",{"titolo":15,"testo":16},"Act II — The Field of Herbs and the Discovery","Amelia goes alone at night to a desolate field to gather a magic herb that, according to the sorceress, will uproot her forbidden love. Riccardo follows her. They confess their love to each other — for the first and only time. Renato arrives to warn Riccardo of a conspiracy. Riccardo flees, entrusting the veiled Amelia to her husband's escort. The conspirators stop Renato and lift the veil. Renato sees his wife.",{"titolo":18,"testo":19},"Act III — The Revenge and the Ball","Renato, beside himself, decides to kill Riccardo. He joins the conspirators. They draw lots to decide who will be the assassin — it falls to him. At the grand masked ball, Amelia begs Riccardo to flee. He refuses: it would be dishonourable. Oscar, naively, points the conspirators to his disguise. Renato stabs him. Riccardo, dying, swears that Amelia was innocent and forgives Renato. He dies.",null,{"type":22,"value":23,"toc":24},"minimark",[],{"title":25,"searchDepth":26,"depth":26,"links":27},"",2,[],"Verdi","md","A Masked Ball is Verdi at the height of his maturity: politics and feelings are inextricably intertwined, and the party — with its masks and its lights — makes death all the more brutal by contrast.",{},true,"/en/verdi/un-ballo-in-maschera",[35,39,43,47,51],{"nome":36,"voce":37,"descrizione":38},"Riccardo (Count of Warwick)","Tenor — the protagonist","Brilliant, beloved governor. He loves Amelia, his best friend's wife. He knows it is wrong. He cannot stop.",{"nome":40,"voce":41,"descrizione":42},"Amelia","Soprano","Renato's wife, in love with Riccardo. She tries to uproot her love through magic — in vain. Her inner struggle is the opera's moral centre.",{"nome":44,"voce":45,"descrizione":46},"Renato","Baritone","Riccardo's best friend and secretary. He discovers his wife loves the governor. Loyalty transforms into a thirst for revenge.",{"nome":48,"voce":49,"descrizione":50},"Ulrica","Contralto — the sorceress","A fortune-teller who predicts Riccardo's death at the hand of a friend. Nobody believes her — except her.",{"nome":52,"voce":53,"descrizione":54},"Oscar","Soprano — the page","A cheerful, irreverent page, the voice of lightness in an increasingly dark opera. It is he who, unwittingly, reveals Riccardo's disguise at the ball.",{"title":5,"description":25},"en/verdi/un-ballo-in-maschera","Forbidden love, political conspiracy and an assassination at a costume ball","b7FBvXG9s0_nKbI5Bp773gnSDCu_YowkzjQ-dTHYCxI",1774014353274]