Un Ballo in Maschera

from Giuseppe Verdi


Libretto

Antonio Somma after the dramma "GUSTAVE III" by Eugene Scribe

Premiere

17 February 1859, Rome (Teatro Apollo)

Cast

RICCARDO (tenor)
RENATO (baritone)
AMELIA (soprano)
ULRICA (contralto)
OSCAR (soprano)
SILVANO (bass)
SAMUEL (bass)
TOM (bass)
JUDGE (tenor)
AMELIA's SERVANT (tenor)

CHORUS
deputies, officers, sailors, guards, men, women and children of the populace, gentlemen, followers of Samuel, servants, masquers

Place

Time

End of the 17th century

Composer

Verdi, Giuseppe