Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi - Opéra national de Paris

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Rigoletto

Opéra Bastille - from 09 April to 30 May 2016

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Rigoletto

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Opera Giuseppe Verdi

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Opéra Bastille - from 09 April to 30 May 2016

2h35 with 1 interval

Language : Italian

About

In few words:

"Gentlemen, give an old man back his daughter. To give her back will cost you nothing, my daughter is all I have in this world. Have pity, gentlemen, have pity."
- Rigoletto, Act II

“Oh! Victor Hugo’s Le Roi s’amuse is the greatest subject, and perhaps the greatest drama of modern times. It’s a work worthy of Shakespeare!” A few months before he wrote those words to Francesco Maria Piave urging him to “turn Venice upside down and persuade the Censor to authorise the subject” – no easy matter given that moral values would be easily offended – Verdi was working on an adaptation of King Lear. No doubt, he was already imbued with the play by his revered master, Shakespeare, when he read Victor Hugo's drama. On discovering in the works of the French writer to whom he would owe Ernani, the greatest triumph of his “difficult years”, a parallel with the triangle formed by the King, his daughter and the jester, it was “like a thunderbolt, an inspiration”.

Between the frivolous, licentious Duke, and Gilda, a victim of the ignorance which holds her captive, stands the double-faceted character of the hunchback, both buffoon and curse-obsessed father. Monstrous and heartrending, grotesque and sublime, the title role reaches its apogee in the aria “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata”, whose descending movement, from the explosion of rage to the moment of entreaty, confirms the composer’s ability to adapt a form inherited from bel canto to theatrical realism. Under the baton of Nicola Luisotti, this new production of Rigoletto marks director Claus Guth’s first collaboration with the Paris Opera.

Rigoletto

Melodramma in three acts (1851)

After Victor Hugo, Le Roi s'amuse

Music :

Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto :

Francesco Maria Piave

Conductor :

Nicola Luisotti

Pier Giorgio Morandi - 14 > 30 mai

Director :

Claus Guth

Set design :

Christian Schmidt

Costume design :

Christian Schmidt

Choreography :

Teresa Rotemberg

Lighting design :

Olaf Winter

Dramaturgy :

Konrad Kuhn

Video :

Andi A. Müller

Chorus master :

José Luis Basso
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

French and English surtitles
Il Duca di Mantova :

Michael Fabiano

9, 11, 14, 17, 23, 26 avril, 2, 5 mai

Francesco Demuro

20, 28 avril, 7, 10, 14, 16, 21, 24, 27, 30 mai

Rigoletto :

Quinn Kelsey

9, 11, 14, 17, 23, 26 avril, 2,10, 16, 24 mai

Franco Vassallo

20, 28 avril, 14, 21, 27, 30 mai

Ludovic Tézier

5, 7 mai

Gilda :

Olga Peretyatko

9, 11, 14, 17, 23, 26 avril, 2, 5, 7, 10, 16, 24 mai

Irina Lungu

20, 28 avril, 14, 21, 27, 30 mai

Sparafucile :

Rafal Siwek

9, 11, 14, 17, 23, 26 avril, 2, 5, 10, 16, 24 mai

Andrea Mastroni

20, 28 avril, 7, 14, 21, 27, 30 mai

Maddalena :

Vesselina Kasarova

Giovanna :

Isabelle Druet

Il Conte di Monterone :

Mikhail Kolelishvili

Marullo :

Michal Partyka

Matteo Borsa :

Christophe Berry

Il Conte di Ceprano :

Tiago Matos

La Contessa :

Andreea Soare

Paggio della Duchessa :

Adriana Gonzalez

Usciere di corte :

Florent Mbia

Performances

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Rigoletto vu par l'Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris

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« Rigoletto » - Trailer

3/3:

Olga Peretyatko à propos de Rigoletto

Audio clips

Podcast | Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi

About the work

Rigoletto

By Laurent Sarazin
Podcast Rigoletto

By France Musique
Rigoletto's daughter

By Felipe Sanguinetti
Victor Hugo, a scriptwriter for operatic blockbusters?

By Violaine Anger

Partners

Sponsor of Rigoletto

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Sponsor of the Paris Opera initiatives for young people and of the avant-premières

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With the support of AROP

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This production will be recorded for television.

A coproduction by the Paris Opera and Fra production with support from the CNC and directed by François Roussillon.
Broadcast in cinemas on 26 April, on Culture Box as of 28 April and on France 2 at a later date.
Broadcast live on France Musique on 28 May.

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