OperaUpClose presents Verdi's Ballo In Maschera

Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose presents

Verdi's
Ballo (A Masked Ball)
Meatballs and Murder on the North Circular

Directed and in a new English version by
Adam Spreadbury-Maher

Based on the real-life assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, director Adam Spreadbury-Maher follows up his hugely successful East Berlin Tosca with a version of Verdi’s political thriller set in a famous Swedish homeware store.

Verdi's original Swedish version of Un Ballo in Maschera was considered too politically inflammatory, and so had to be re-written to give the characters Italian identities. OperaUpClose's production combines the Italian characters with a distinctly Swedish flavour, served up in an unmistakably English setting of an out-of-town shopping centre on the North Circular Road.

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