Un ballo in maschera

Name: Un ballo in maschera
Start: 2026-09-26T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-26T21:45:00+02:00
Location: Innsbruck, Großes Haus

Saturday 26 September · 19:00Innsbruck, Großes Haus · tirol

What's it about?

Social splendor, political danger, and forbidden love: Verdi's Un ballo in maschera is a deadly game on an open stage. King Gustav III dances masked through a world of intrigue, passion, and power, intoxicated by his supposed invulnerability. Un ballo in maschera is considered unique within Verdi's oeuvre for its musical perfection and at the same time one of his most enigmatic operas. The original work Gustave by Eugène Scribe refers to a historical event: the assassination of the Swedish King Gustav III. Giuseppe Verdi and Antonio Somma transform the ruler into an approachable, almost reckless figure who loses himself in forbidden love for his best friend's wife and thereby suppresses the political threats around him. As the conspirators form and the fortune teller Ulrika prophesies Gustav's imminent death, the lines between public responsibility and private desire blur. But the sic...