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Article: Patrons at masked ball can't hide joy.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 11, 1997
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EVENT: Friday's Washington Opera Ball, traditionally one of the city's grandest social affairs and - with tickets starting at $800 per couple - one of the most expensive.
THEME: After a memorable visit last year to Venice, Italy, ball chairwoman Mary Ourisman decided that a carnival fantasy with masks would be just the thing to resuscitate an event that had become a trifle dull of late. When opera officials allowed her to pillage the props room and set warehouse to achieve the desired effect, she never looked back.
10:30 p.m.: Supernumeraries colorfully garbed as torchbearers and palace guards from "Rigoletto" line the entrance to Villa Firenze, the ...