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| Un Ballo in Maschera Productions of Interest |
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| 1953 The regular season closed with Ballo in Maschera. It was at this performance, during the second intermission, that a small ceremony in Merola’s honor took place. A plaque bearing a bas relief portrait done by Spero Anagyros was unveiled at the west end of the south corridor of the Opera House. 1967 Ballo proved a controversial affair. Adler cast Leontyne Price and Ragnar Ulfung, a very creative singing actor, and one used to appearing in the Stockholm Opera’s historically accurate Swedish-set production in which the Riccardo (Gustav III) gives off a homosexual air. (At that time), in San Francisco’s woody Boston setting, this production was doomed, as indeed it probably would have been in Stockholm (at that time). Ulfung, although a highly experienced artist, became nervous about the discrepancies between what he was used to doing and what would fit with stellar sopranoism, and the result was he sang distressingly off pitch. His death scene in act three was so graphically convulsive and pitiable, it caused empathetic chest pains in at least one observer. (This sounds like a good opera for the SFO S/ Rainbow Series.) Maschera Data Base |
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| Director: Mario Martone Set designer: Sergio Tramonti Costume Designer: Bruno Schwengi. |
| Opera Company unmasks a 'Ballo' in excellent voice/ Review-Philadelphia |
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