Opera

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
Melodramma in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave,
Based on the verse drama Le Roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo

In Italian with German surtitles

2 hours 30 minutes, one intermission

For adults and young people from age 14

Dates and tickets

Fr, 28.03.2025 | 19:30 – 22:00 h
25,50 € – 75,50 € | red. from 6,00 €
Opernhaus |  
25,50 € – 75,50 € | red. from 6,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Mario Hartmuth

Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas Rigoletto Daniel Luis de Vicente Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian Marullo Eduardo Martinez Borsa Stefan Lascu | Jae Wook Yoo Graf Ceprano Marek Durka | Frank Domnick Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen | Mohsen Rashidkhan

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Sa, 05.04.2025 | 19:30 – 22:00 h
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Opernhaus |  
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Mario Hartmuth

Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas Rigoletto Daniel Luis de Vicente Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian Marullo Eduardo Martinez Borsa Stefan Lascu | Jae Wook Yoo Graf Ceprano Marek Durka | Frank Domnick Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen | Mohsen Rashidkhan

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Sa, 26.04.2025 | 19:30 – 22:00 h
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Opernhaus |  
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Mario Hartmuth

Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas Rigoletto Daniel Luis de Vicente Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian Marullo Eduardo Martinez Borsa Stefan Lascu | Jae Wook Yoo Graf Ceprano Marek Durka | Frank Domnick Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen | Mohsen Rashidkhan

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Fr, 02.05.2025 | 19:30 – 22:00 h
25,50 € – 75,50 € | red. from 6,00 €
Opernhaus |  
25,50 € – 75,50 € | red. from 6,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Masaru Kumakura

Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas Rigoletto Daniel Luis de Vicente Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian Marullo Eduardo Martinez Borsa Stefan Lascu | Jae Wook Yoo Graf Ceprano Marek Durka | Frank Domnick Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen | Mohsen Rashidkhan

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Fr, 09.05.2025 | 19:30 – 22:00 h
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Opernhaus |  
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Masaru Kumakura

Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas Rigoletto Daniel Luis de Vicente Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian Marullo Eduardo Martinez Borsa Stefan Lascu | Jae Wook Yoo Graf Ceprano Marek Durka | Frank Domnick Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen | Mohsen Rashidkhan

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover
Fr, 30.05.2025 | 19:30 h
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Opernhaus |  
24,50 € – 71,00 € | red. from 6,00 €
Cast
Musikalische Leitung Mario Hartmuth

Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas Rigoletto Daniel Luis de Vicente Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian Marullo Eduardo Martinez Borsa Stefan Lascu | Jae Wook Yoo Graf Ceprano Marek Durka | Frank Domnick Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen | Mohsen Rashidkhan

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

A disfigured, cynical entertainer at the mercy of the benevolence of the powerful, a father who frantically keeps his adolescent daughter hidden, a humiliated outsider who, in his craving for revenge, triggers the very tragedy that will cost his daughter’s life – the tale of Rigoletto, who tries in vain to hide his daughter Gilda from the world and from an aristocratic seducer, is one of the great stories of musical theatre.

Gilda has already fallen for the enticing Duke. When his henchmen kidnap the girl, her father Rigoletto sees red. He pays professional hitman Sparafucile to kill the Duke and plans to flee the city with Gilda in secret. But Gilda defies her father’s wishes and goes to the location where the Duke is to be killed on this stormy night of thunder and lightning.

Ever since its triumphant world premiere at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice in 1851, Rigoletto has quite rightly enjoyed an unbroken history of performances at opera houses across the world. Verdi’s breath-taking composition outlines the characters in enchanting vocal lines and subtle configurations of the orchestra: a profound musical drama with psychologically sophisticated characters and situations. Director Karsten Wiegand places the title character’s inner drama at the centre of his staging. Rigoletto has been degraded, a clown to be sneered at by a pleasure-seeking class with no empathy, dancing at the edge of the abyss, a farce, a caricature of themselves.

Musikalische Leitung Mario Hartmuth / Masaru Kumakura
Inszenierung Karsten Wiegand
Bühne Bärbl Hohmann
Kostüme Moritz Junge
Licht Claus Ackenhausen
Dramaturgie Albrecht Puhlmann


Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas
Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale
Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen
Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian
Graf Monterone Frank Schneiders
Borsa Jae Wook Yoo / Patrick Jones
Graf Ceprano Marek Durka / Frank Domnick
Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller
Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen / Mohsen Rashidkhan