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This month at Detroit's Michigan Opera Theatre, Steven Mercurio leads a revival of Zack Brown's production of Un Ballo in Maschera.(On The Beat)(Brief Article)
This month at Detroit's Michigan Opera Theatre, STEVEN MERCURIO leads a revival of ZACK BROWN's production of Un Ballo in Maschera. While many conductors are quick to point out the Herculean challenges of whatever score they're working on at the moment, Mercurio's take on Ballo is refreshing: "I don't think it's hard at all," he says. "The real challenge is the importance of the tenor as primary candidate. But once you have done four or five of the middle Verdi operas, I don't think it's that difficult, because the vocabulary of Trovatore, Rigoletto, Ballo is so much the same.
"Rigoletto is wonderfully inventive, but I don't think there's anything so inventive in Ballo. I think ...
- Un Ballo in Maschera. (Opera in Review: Ottawa).(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Love, Earl June 22, 2003 700+ words
The final production for Opera Lyra Ottawa's season was Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. The company used sets by Peter Dean Beck (for Atlanta Opera) that put the action in 17th-century Boston, Verdi...
- OPERA Un Ballo in Maschera Holland Park, London
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Nick Kimberley August 17, 1996 700+ words
...by Opera Holland Park, making its debut during the Holland Park opera season. In asking Anthony Besch to direct Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Opera Holland Park placed itself in safe hands: too safe, perhaps. Besch was never going to give us Ballo...
- L'Opera de Montreal: Un ballo in maschera.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Kaptainis, Arthur November 1, 2007 700+ words
...sellouts, the financially challenged Opera de Montreal started 2007/08 with high hopes and a new production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (Sep. 22-Oct. 4). Audience response was so-so. A mid-period masterpiece to those in the know, this...
- Stellar cast shines in 'Un Ballo'.(ARTS)(OPERA)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 6, 2002 700+ words
...production of Giuseppe Verdi's tragic "Un Ballo in Maschera" ("A Masked Ball...run for their money as an attraction. "Un Ballo" certainly had one of the most convoluted...rehearsal. Authorities threatened to ban "Un Ballo," but the public mounted noisy demonstrations...
- The Lyric does it again with Verdi's 'Un Ballo'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Gowen, Bill February 17, 2003 700+ words
...Daily Herald Classical Music Critic "Un Ballo in Maschera" - Mini-Review: New clothes...musical achievement of Giuseppe Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" ("A Masked Ball") has...Riccardo). Although many revivals of "Un Ballo" by Italian opera houses over the years...
- "Un Ballo In Maschera" To Be Held March 4th
- Newspaper article from: Italian Voice, The Mina Kumar February 23, 1995 700+ words
Mina Kumar Italian Voice, The 02-23-1995 "Un Ballo In Maschera" To Be Held March 4th. The Center for Italian...Center's annual black-tie fundraiser, Gala '95, "Un Ballo in Maschera" to be held on Saturday, March 4, at Le Grande...
- Un ballo in maschera.(DVDs)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada June 1, 2008 700+ words
...videos, including a splendid budget collection, Pavarotti sings Verdi, which includes a thrilling, 1991 Metropolitan Opera Un ballo in maschera in its Swedish setting (DG/Decca 073 4458). Now comes an earlier Met Ballo, but in its Boston setting and...
- VERDI: Un Ballo in Maschera
- Magazine article from: Opera News Siff, Ira August 1, 2008 700+ words
VERDI: Un Ballo in Maschera Shuard, Carlyle, Resnik; Vickers, Bastianini, Langdon, Kelly; Covent Garden Orchestra and Chorus, E. Dowries...
