Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball): Vocal Score

by Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Peter Fuchs

Italian/English. Translated by Fuchs.

Genres: Music, Italian Literature

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1859

About the author

Fullest artistic form of operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, included La Traviata in 1853, Aïda in 1871, and Otello in 1887; people credit him with raising the genre.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, mainly a Romantic, most influenced the 19th century. Houses frequently perform his works throughout the world, and some themes transcended the boundaries of the genre and long took root in popular culture:
* "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto
* "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco , and
* "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song).

Masterworks of Giuseppe Verdi used a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and people sometimes criticized tendency toward melodrama, which dominates the standard repertoire a century and a half.

Reviews

[Amaranta]

Bella, ma sulla scena è tutta un'altra cosa.

[Raúl]

Una obra un tanto cándida, con un buen personaje femenino, un buen juego de contradiciones y una bruillante situación final, le sirve a Verdi para realizar una obra sin fisuras.

[아리]

What a shit ending.