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Rigoletto

Opéra Bastille - from 27 May to 27 June 2017

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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.

Rigoletto

Melodramma in three acts (1851)

After Victor Hugo, Le Roi s'amuse

Music :

Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto :

Francesco Maria Piave

Conductor :

Daniele Rustioni

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
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

French and English surtitles
Il Duca di Mantova :

Vittorio Grigolo

Rigoletto :

Željko Lučić

Gilda :

Nadine Sierra

Lisette Oropesa

24, 27 June

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

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Rigoletto - Si vendetta (Nadine Sierra & Željko Lučić)

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Rigoletto - La donna è mobile (Vittorio Grigolo)

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Rigoletto - Trailer

Audio clips

Podcast | Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi

About the work

Schönberg, Verdi, Wagner and Berlioz: the commitment to cycles

By Octave
Walking in Rigoletto’s shoes

By Marion Mirande, Juliette Puaux and Felipe Sanguinetti
Draw me Rigoletto

By Pauline Andrieu
Podcast Rigoletto

By Judith Chaine

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With the support of AROP

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