rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto
Melodramma in three acts (1851)
- Music
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Libretto
- Francesco Maria Piave
- Conductor
- Daniele Rustioni
- Director
- Claus Guth
- Il Duca di Mantova
- Vittorio Grigolo
- Rigoletto
- Željko Lučić
- Gilda
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Nadine Sierra
Lisette Oropesa - Sparafucile
- Kwangchul Youn
- Maddalena
- Elena Maximova
- Giovanna
- Marie Gautrot
- Il Conte di Monterone
- Robert Pomakov
- Marullo
- Christophe Gay
- Matteo Borsa
- Julien Dran
- Il Conte di Ceprano
- Mikhail Timoshenko
- La Contessa
- Veta Pilipenko
- Paggio della Duchessa
- Laure Poissonnier
- Usciere di Corte
- Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou
- Double de Rigoletto
- Henri Bernard Guizirian
- 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
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
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"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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