Opera in three acts Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after the play Le Roi
s’amuse by Victor Hugo Performed in Italian Artistic director - Evgeny
Kolobov Conductor Antonino Fogliani (Italy) Stage Director - Ralph
Langbaka (Finland) Set Designer - Lennart Mork (Sweden) Choirmasters -
Natalya Popovich, Sergey Lysenko Lighting Designer Gleb
Filshtinsky
Performed in Italian with Russian surtitles
Running time: 3 hours 5 minutes with two
intermissions
Premiered on 19 December 2000
The production was awarded the Casta Diva Russian Opera Prize as the
“Event of the Year” in 2000.
The court jester Rigoletto, a spiteful hunchback, revenges
his many years of humiliation on others by ruthlessly aiding vice. He is the
main procurer of young girls to the dissolute Duke of Mantua. But “divine
justice” befalls Rigoletto, while his daughter becomes the sacrificial lamb.
Protecting and cherishing his daughter, he hopes to receive forgiveness. When he
loses her, he is enlightened, but, alas, it’s too late.
At a ball
in the palace of the Duke of Mantua, the court jester Rigoletto, a hunchback,
taunts Count Ceprano, whose wife is the target of the Duke’s wandering eye.
Count Monterone, whose daughter the Duke has seduced, pushes his way in and
calls a curse on the Duke for destroying his daughter’s honour and Rigoletto for
making jest of it. Through trickery, Rigoletto’s daughter, Gilda, is carried off
to the Duke to suffer the same fate as Monterone’s daughter. Rigoletto plots his
revenge through use of the assassin Sparafucile and his sister Maddalena. But
when a court jester plots revenge, who will have the last laugh? Things do not
go as planned for Rigoletto as the curse comes back to haunt him.
"Rigoletto" - G.Verdi. Opera in three acts - Novaya Opera
About This Video
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Rigoletto is a classic example of the Verdi theatre: passionate, tearful, tender and evil,with historical costumes and a romantic environment. The co-project of the Novaya Opera and the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Rigoletto has run on stage more than fifteen years, enjoying unvarying success. In different years this production featured Dmitry Hvorostovsky and Franz Grundheber as Rigoletto and was conducted by Evgeny Kolobov and Antonino Fogliani.
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