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Opera, melodrama in three acts by Giuseppe VERDI, Libretto by Francesco Maria PIAVE based on Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse
At the end of his life Giuseppe Verdi considered Rigoletto as his most beautiful and accomplished opera. Inspired by Victor Hugo's play Le roi s’amuse, created at French Theater in 1832, Verdi is particularly seduced by the buffoon’s tragic character. Despite the strong pressure of the moral and religious censorship, Rigoletto - created on March 11th, 1851 in Fenice – raised great enthusiasm. The next day, whole Venice hummed La donna è mobile. Between the futile and licentious duke and Gilda, victim of the ignorance in which she is held prisoner, the two faces figure of the hunchbacked buffoon and the father obsessed by the curse is rising up. The title role is monstrous and heartbraking, grotesque and sublime : it reaches its peak with the Cortigiani, vil razza dannata aria, the downward movement of which demonstrates the composer’s capacity to adapt a shape inherited from bel canto to the truth of theatre. The title role will be interpreted by immense Leo Nucci, the archetypal verdian interpreter.
RIGOLETTO : Leo Nucci ; GILDA : Desirée Rancatore ; IL DUCA DI MANTOVA : Gianluca Terranova ; SPARAFUCILE : Luciano Montanaro ; MADDALENA : Carla Dirlikov ; IL CONTE DI CEPRANO : Benoit Delvaux ; LA CONTESSA DI CEPRANO : Alexise Yerna ; GIOVANNA : Laura Balidemaj ; IL CONTE DI MONTERONE : Roger Joakim ; MARULLO : Patrick Delcour ; MATTEO BORSA : Giovanni Iovino ; USCIERE DI CORTE : Victor Cousu ; IL PAGGIO DELLA DUCHESSA : Enfant de la Maîtrise Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège ; Orchestra and chorus from Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège.
Staging, sets and costumes : Stefano Mazzonis DI PRALAFERA ; Musical Direction : Renato PALUMBO ; Lighting : Michel STILMAN
French
Production compagny : Oxymore
Coproduction compagny : Opera Royal de Wallonie, Jim & Jules, RTBF, France Televisions
Running Time : 132'
Production Year : 2015
Distribution compagny : Telmondis Distribution
Video Format : HD