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Rigoletto
Opéra Bastille - from 27 May to 27 June 2017
Rigoletto
Opera Giuseppe Verdi
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Opéra Bastille - from 27 May to 27 June 2017
2h35 with 1 interval
Language : Italian
About
In few words:
"The moment of vengeance has finally come. For thirty da ys I have waited, Weeping tears of blood, behind the mask of a buffoon."Rigoletto, Acte III
In Victor Hugo’s luxuriant drama Le Roi s’amuse, Verdi found theatre worthy of Shakespeare. Such, at least, were his enthusiastic words when he urged his librettist Piave to scour all Venice to find someone with sufficient influence to get his new opera past the censors unscathed. Alas, conventional morality rose up in protest and it proved impossible. Verdi’s hunchbacked jester is one of the most complex and tormented figures in the entire operatic repertoire: monstrous and heartbreaking, grotesque and sublime, this tragically doomed father who seeks to save his daughter from the clutches of the duke, will be the one to kill her. The role reaches its apogee in the aria “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata”, in which the descending movement, from Rigoletto’s explosion of rage to his begging, confirms Verdi’s capacity to adapt traditional bel canto to the demands of theatrical verisimilitude. This is director Claus Guth’s first production for the Paris Opera.
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Rigoletto
Melodramma in three acts (1851)
After Victor Hugo, Le Roi s'amuse
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Music :
Giuseppe Verdi - (1813-1901)
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Libretto :
Francesco Maria Piave
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Director :
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Choreography :
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Dramaturgy :
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Video :
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Chorus master :
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Il Duca di Mantova :
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Rigoletto :
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Gilda :
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24, 27 June
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Sparafucile :
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Maddalena :
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Giovanna :
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Il Conte di Monterone :
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Marullo :
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Matteo Borsa :
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Il Conte di Ceprano :
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La Contessa :
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Paggio della Duchessa :
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Usciere di Corte :
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Double de Rigoletto :
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Performances
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Gallery
1/14 :
© Charles Duprat / OnP
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Audio clips
Podcast | Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi
About the work
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Schönberg, Verdi, Wagner and Berlioz: the commitment to cycles
By Octave
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Rigoletto’s cardboard box
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Mikhail Timoshenko
By Elia Marco and Simon Hatab
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Walking in Rigoletto’s shoes
Partners
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With the support of AROP
Media and technical partners
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Media partnership
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Media partnership
