Music by Giuseppe Verdi & libretto by Antonio Somma, taken from the libretto by Eugène Scribe, Gustave III ou Le Bal masqué ( Paris, 1833).

The plot concerns the murder in 1792 of Richard, Count of Warwick & Governor of Boston, who was shot as a result of a political conspiracy, while attending a masked ball.

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