Riccardo Muti triumphs with Un ballo in maschera in Turin

Luca Micheletti (Renato), Piero Pretti (Riccardo) and ensemble

Daniel Giulianini (Samuel), Luca Micheletti (Renato) and Luca Dall'Amico (Tom)

Un ballo in maschera

Alla Pozniak (Ulrica)

Lidia Fridman (Amelia) and Piero Pretti (Riccardo)

By Laura Servidei, 25 February 2024

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“Muti demonstrated unwavering support for his singers”

Reviewed at Teatro Regio di Torino, Turin on 23 February 2024

Verdi, Un ballo in maschera

Teatro Regio di Torino

Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Andrea de Rosa, Director

Nicolas Bovey, Set Designer

Ilaria Ariemme, Costume Designer

Pasquale Mari, Lighting Designer

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino

Piero Pretti, Riccardo

Luca Micheletti, Renato

Lidia Fridman, Amelia

Alla Pozniak, Ulrica

Damiana Mizzi, Oscar

Daniel Giulianini, Samuel

Luca Dall'Amico, Tom

Sergio Vitale, Silvano

Riccardo Rados, Judge, Amelia's servant

Alessio Maria Romano, Choreography

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Renato Verga, 3rd October

The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.

**111

The first modern staged performance of Paër’s Agnese in Turin

Laura Servidei, 17th March

The Teatro Regio presents a Classical rarity with echoes of Mozart and anticipations of Rossini. Diego Fasolis conducts with imagination and spunk.

***11

In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day

Renato Verga, 10th October

Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.

***11

A strong Italian cast for Così fan tutte in Turin

Laura Servidei, 1st July

Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.

****1

On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin

Renato Verga, 16th May

Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.

****1

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James Imam, 20th April

The director presents the story clearly enough, but apart from that, there is not much going for this production.

***11

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Laura Servidei

Mathematician, science nerd, translator of popular science books, obsessed opera fan since the teen years. Day job: business analyst in a software house developing systems for the financial industry. Amateur choral singer. Main musical interests: baroque music and Italian opera. Originally from Italy, currently based in Sweden. I make a mean eggplant parmesan.

Riccardo Muti triumphs with Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Regio in Turin