DVD + Blu-Ray + 4K/UHD:
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
Praise for the Bayerische Staatsoper's new Ballo in maschera: “A formidable vocal feast” - “this production shows what a utopia opera can be”.
Ten years after stepping down as music director of the Bavarian State Opera, a “grand Zubin Mehta“ (Bayerischer Rundfunk) returned to Munich to celebrate his 80th birthday conducting Verdi’s masterpiece for the first time in a staged production.
His cast features some of today’s finest Verdi singers: soprano Anja Harteros, singing Amelia for the first time and “filling every note with Verdian intensity”, tenor Piotr Beczala as a “visually and vocally dashing Riccardo” and George Petean as an “exemplary” Renato (Neue Musikzeitung).
In director Johannes Erath’s musically super-sensitive new production, this historically-based tale of illicit love, conspiracy and betrayal unfolds in a surrealistic, shadowy setting transformed by lighting and projections. Special praise was showered by the enthusiastic critics on Maestro Mehta, who “creates concentrated musical connections, miraculously guiding his orchestra and unsurpassable voices the way a thermal lifts a paraglider ...
Musically the performance was a dream” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). “A total triumph” (La Razón). “This production shows what a utopia opera can be” (Abendzeitung).
Available as DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K/UHD
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
Genre Opera
Recording location Bayerische Staatsoper, March, 2016
Duration 149 mins
Producer UNITEL CLASSICA in co-production with BR/arte in cooperation with Bayerische Staatsoper
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra / Band Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Conductor Zubin Mehta
Choir Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
Chorus Master Sören Eckhoff
Stage Director Johannes Erath
Soloist Piotr Beczala, Anja Harteros, George Petean, Okka von der Damerau, Sofia Fomina
Video format 4K/UHD
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