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

Date: 1859

## The fact

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

It is one event.

## Context

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

[Giuseppe Verdi](/people/giuseppe-verdi)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Post-Orsini assassination panic; Swedish setting as compromise.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Britannica — Giuseppe Verdi (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giuseppe-Verdi; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Winning a staged premiere after political censorship is a rights-of-expression path.

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Giuseppe Verdi.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `protection-of-minority-rights` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Giuseppe Verdi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not erase the separate 1858 censorship row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Giuseppe Verdi.
The driver `protection-of-minority-rights` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Giuseppe Verdi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not erase the separate 1858 censorship row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Giuseppe Verdi.

## People

- Giuseppe Verdi: https://factrail.ai/people/giuseppe-verdi

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.studiverdiani.it/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giuseppe-Verdi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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