Un ballo in Maschera

Ménage à trois with fatal consequences: “A masked ball” with an insight into the art of deception.

Once upon a time in Boston, USA at the end of the 17th century. Admittedly, it's a wild story: a governor falls in love with the wrong woman, namely his best friend. Although a fortune teller predicts what will happen, the drama continues unabated. The friend mutates into a murderer, his wife is morally trapped and emotionally torn. In the bitter end, completely involuntarily, she becomes an accomplice in the murder of her lover. Verdi stages the lavish masquerade ball as an operatic thriller full of stunning arias. With the fatal finale he sets the final highlight.