King Gustav III
Final Performance is Friday
Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)
By Giuseppe Verdi
Overview
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Dates
September 6–27, 2024
Libretto
Antonio Somma
Price
Starting at $28
Run Time
2 hours and 55 minutes with two intermissions
Language
Italian
Unmasked Love. Inescapable Fate.
King Gustav III secretly harbors a love for Amelia, the wife of his closest advisor and friend. When a visit to a fortune teller confirms that his love is reciprocated and reveals a plot against his life, the seeds of his undoing take root.
Lavish costumes adorn masked courtiers as they gossip through the political machinations of eighteenth-century Sweden. Leo Muscato’s direction makes this new-to-San Francisco Opera production a must-see return to Verdi’s thrilling drama.
Un Ballo in Maschera continues Music Director Eun Sun Kim’s exploration of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi.
The Buzz
“Any production this well sung and well directed deserves the largest possible audience.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“[Michael] Fabiano has the burnished tone, passion and sweeping musical line that Verdi’s heroes require, whether singing heroically or tenderly.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
“Mei Gui Zhang’s vivid coloratura soprano and agile physicality made the character a bright, endearing presence”
-San Francisco Chronicle
See a Performance
Opera Previews
OperaVision, HD video projection screens featured in the Balcony level for the first three performances.
Synopsis
* San Francisco Opera Debut
A co-production between the Malmö Opera and Theatro dell’Opera di Roma
Made Possible By
This production is made possible, in part, by
Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey.
Additional support is provided by Jerome L. and Thao N. Dodson; Keith and Priscilla Geeslin; the San Francisco Opera Guild;
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem; and The Thomas Tilton Production Fund