show category: opera

Opera in three acts (libretto by Antonio Somma, based on Eugéne Scribe’s Gustav the Third)

Recommended Age: 7+

Un ballo in maschera found itself for the first time in the spotlight on Apollo’s Theatre stage in Rome, becoming famous not just as an operatic masterpiece, but also due to its controversial libretto, based on the tragic story of King Gustav the Third of Sweden, that also brought the work under the censorship effects for a long period of time.

The historical setting is centred upon Riccardo – Count of Warwick, his truthful friend Renato and his wife, Amelia – caught in between the two men’s love. The medieval story fascinates by its passion and intrigues, the sanctity of friendship and honour, the pain as a consequence of hidden love-triangles, and betrayal that, with-or-without masque, will always require huge costs in exchange. This verdian production of The Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca keeps its classic essence, the characters, decor and stage directions’ original nature, looking forward to a natural rendering of the whole action, but also of the intense feelings of its heroes.

We are expecting You to discover what lays beyond the elegant masks in a legendary opera!

The performance has two intermissions and ends around 9.30 p.m.