Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (VIVA! Opera 41)

Ayako Ohtake, a Sydney-based Japanese soprano singer, hosts biweekly music segment called VIVA! Opera for SBS Japanese.

Portrait of fiorenza cossotto, Opera singer backstage at Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore, 1981, San Francisco, California, USA. Credit: Ira Nowinski/Corbis via Getty Images

VIVA! Opera is a biweekly content broadcast on Tuesdays. In the 41st episode, Ms Ohtake picks 'Re del l'abisso' from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

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