Un Ballo in Maschera

Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is one of the world’s leading opera singers. While he excels in Verdi—he will be appearing in “Un Ballo in Maschera” at the Met later this season—he is at his best in music of his homeland.

Verdi’s librettist Antonio Somma based his script on an actual assassination at a masked ball.