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    Rigoletto

    VERDI

    OPERA / GIUSEPPE VERDI / 21-22
    Contradictions and conflicts in an extraordinary score
    28 NOV - 19 DEC
    With the exclusive sponsorship
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    INFO

    1. CHAPTER 1
      An insight to the history
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    2. CAPÍTOL 2
      Did you know...
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    3. CHAPTER 3
      Rigoletto vs Joker feat. Àlex Gorina
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    4. CHAPTER 4
      The music rehearsal
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    5. CHAPTER 5
      Artistic team
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    6. Chapter 5
      La donna è mobile
      Rigoletto (21/22)
    7. Conversation about Rigoletto and Cinema
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    8. Maria Ripoll's Advertising Spot
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    9. Espot
      Rigoletto (21/22)
      Video
    10. Trailer
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    11. Rigoletto (21/22)
      Press Conference
    12. Rigoletto
      La previa
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    Abstract

    In a letter to his librettist Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi wrote: “Oh! Victor Hugo's Le Roi s’amuse deals with the greatest of themes and is perhaps the most important play of modern times. It's worthy of Shakespeare!”. He was working on an adaptation of King Lear at the time but then returned to Hugo, to whom he owed the greatest triumph of his most difficult years: Ernani.

    The irresistible threesome of the king, his daughter and the court jester came as flash of inspiration to Verdi. Between the shallow, lecherous Duke (Hugo's king) and Gilda, who is both a victim and captive of ignorance, he places Rigoletto, the wonderful, ambivalent hunchback whose paradise is the peaceful home and family he struggles to protect. Despite his outward deformity, Rigoletto is passionately loving being, but also a monstruous father, obsessed by a curse, who is harrowing, grotesque and sublime in equal measure. His star aria, “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata”, takes him from indomitable rage to humble supplication, attesting to Verdi's ability to adapt a form he inherited from bel canto to dramatic realism.

    Monique Wagemakers' exuberant production, with its delightful Venetian red costumes, focusses on the themes of ill-treatment, the quest for identity, and the abuse of power over the defenceless, as shown by the Duke's domination of Rigoletto and Rigoletto's domination of his daughter. Precisely the contradictions and conflicts on which the whole extraordinary score rests.

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    Opera
    Season 21/22
    Rigoletto
    Verdi
    Monique Wagemakers
    Daniele Callegari
    Benjamin Bernheim
    Olga Peretyatko
    Samir Pirgu
    Christopher Maltman
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