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Rigoletto © Julia Lormis

Rigoletto © Julia Lormis

Rigoletto © Julia Lormis

Rigoletto © Julia Lormis

Rigoletto © Julia Lormis
Overview
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.
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
Szenische Einstudierung Stephan Krautwald
Bühne Bärbl Hohmann
Kostüme Moritz Junge
Licht Claus Ackenhausen
Chor Lorenzo Da Rio
Dramaturgie Albrecht Puhlmann
Herzog von Mantua Mario Rojas
Rigoletto Daniel Luis de Vicente
Gilda Francesca Pia Vitale
Sparafucile Markus Suihkonen
Maddalena Ruzana Grigorian
Graf Monterone Frank Schneiders
Marullo Eduardo Martinez
Borsa Jae Wook Yoo / Patrick Jones
Graf Ceprano Marek Durka / Frank Domnick
Gräfin Ceprano, Page Freya Müller
Gerichtsdiener Henri Tikkanen / Mohsen Rashidkhan