Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

1 Full DVD9 | NTSC | All Regions | 16:9 | DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo, DD 5.1 | VO: italian | 6,35 GB

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian  | Timing: 137 min

Recorded in 2005, Leipzig Opera | + Full Booklet

Actors:

Massimiliano Pisapia... Riccardo

Franco Vassallo... Renato

Chiara Taigi... Amelia

Anna Maria Chiuri... Ulrica

Eun Yee You... Oscar

Conductor: Riccardo Chailly

Stage Director: Ermanno Olmi

This film conflated from two live performances of 'Un Ballo in Maschera' comes from the Leipzig Opera and thus the marvelous Gewandhaus Orchestra is in the pit and the conductor is their new music director Riccardo Chailly, conducting his first-ever 'Ballo.' The singers are all unknown to me but I'll wager that we'll be hearing about Massimiliano Pisapia (Riccardo) and possibly also Chiara Taigi (Amelia) in the not too distant future. The rest of the cast is mostly Italian and that lends a certain stylistic unity to the production. 

Stage direction is by film director Ermanno Olmi ('The Tree of Wooden Clogs') and seems neither particularly imaginative nor obtrusive.

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