11 December 2018 (Tue), 19:00 Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre - Opera "Rigoletto" - G.Verdi. Opera in three acts
Running time: 3 hours 5 minutes (till 22:05)
Schedule for "Rigoletto" - G.Verdi. Opera in three acts 2022
Premiere of this production: 19 December 2000
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.
Schedule for "Rigoletto" - G.Verdi. Opera in three acts 2022
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