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Un ballo in maschera opens in Rome on 17 February 1859 after forced relocation of the regicide plot

The 1858 censorship fight remains a neighbouring worsening row. gv-ballo-censorship-1858 is the prior fight. In the causal graph this event strengthens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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Somma and the Rome house share the night. The 1858 censorship fight remains a neighbouring worsening row.

Context

gv-ballo-censorship-1858 is the prior fight.

Giuseppe Verdi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Post-Orsini assassination panic; Swedish setting as compromise.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    Named composer of the censored-then-premiered Ballo. Librettist and censors shape the text.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactUn ballo in maschera opens in Rome on 17 February 1859 after forced relocation of the regicide plot
    2. strengthensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 17 February 1859 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.45 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Istituto Nazionale di Studi VerdianiIstituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Giuseppe VerdiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica dates Un ballo in maschera’s 17 February 1859 Teatro Apollo premiere after censors forced the assassination plot away from a living-king setting.

Britannica and Verdiani files independently date the 1859 Ballo premiere after censorship relocation.

Established: 17 February 1859 Rome premiere. Not established: that censors vanished thereafter.

Giuseppe Verdi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorGiuseppe Verdi
  2. contributed toFactUn ballo in maschera opens in Rome on 17 February 1859 after forced relocation of the regicide plot
  3. strengthensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Un ballo in maschera opens in Rome on 17 February 1859 after forced relocation of the regicide plot. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/gv-ballo-premiere-1859

https://factrail.ai/facts/gv-ballo-premiere-1859

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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