Fellow devotees: owing to work pressure, the post originally scheduled for today, Nov. 3, is re-scheduled for Mon., Nov. 6. I am writing about Verdi’s Un Ballo in maschera—in part about the current revival of this wonderful opera at the Met, and in part about the work’s unique nature and standing in the Verdi canon, and about a particular aspect of that (its northerly tint) as imagined in performance.

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