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Rigoletto at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Dates: (5/27/2017 - 6/27/2017 )
Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille |
Place de la Bastille
Paris,Île-de-France 75012
Phone: +33 (0)1 71 25 24 23
Running Time: 2h35 with 1 interval
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In Victor Hugo’s luxuriant drama Le Roi s’amuse, Verdi found theatre worthy of Shakespeare. Such, at least, were his enthusiastic words when he urged his librettist Piave to scour all Venice to find someone with sufficient influence to get his new opera past the censors unscathed. Alas, conventional morality rose up in protest and it proved impossible. Verdi’s hunchbacked jester is one of the most complex and tormented figures in the entire operatic repertoire: monstrous and heartbreaking, grotesque and sublime, this tragically doomed father who seeks to save his daughter from the clutches of the duke, will be the one to kill her. The role reaches its apogee in the aria “Cortigiani, vil razza dannata”, in which the descending movement, from Rigoletto’s explosion of rage to his begging, confirms Verdi’s capacity to adapt traditional bel canto to the demands of theatrical verisimilitude. This is director Claus Guth’s first production for the Paris Opera.
- Francesco Maria Piave
- Giuseppe Verdi
Authors
Cast and Creative team for Rigoletto at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille
Music
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto
Francesco Maria Piave
After Victor Hugo, Le Roi s'amuse
In italian
Conductor
Daniele Rustioni
Director
Claus Guth
Il Duca di Mantova
Vittorio Grigolo
Rigoletto
Željko Lu?i?
Gilda
Nadine Sierra
Sparafucile
Kwangchul Youn
Maddalena
Elena Maximova
Giovanna
Marie Gautrot
Il Conte di Monterone
Robert Pomakov
Marullo
Christophe Gay
Matteo Borsa
Julien Dran
Il Conte di Ceprano
Mikhail Timoshenko
La Contessa
Joanna Jakubas
Paggio della Duchessa
Laure Poissonnier
Usciere di Corte
Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou
Set design
Christian Schmidt
Costume design
Christian Schmidt
Choreography
Teresa Rotemberg
Lighting design
Olaf Winter
Dramaturgy
Konrad Kuhn
Video
Andi A. Müller
Chorus master
José Luis Basso
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