NCPA Opera Festival 2010 Presents Verdi's RIGOLETTO

NCPA Opera Festival 2010-Verdi's Opera: Rigoletto (a Cooperative Production of Teatro Regio di Parma and NCPA) at the Opera House on Jun. 16-19, 2010?19:30.

From the NCPA's website. "The opera Rigoletto created in 1851 is one of the most amazing works of the Italian opera master Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi. Rigoletto, together with La Traviata and Il Trovatore are considered the three masterpieces of Verdi produced in 1850s and has been always on the opera stage during the past century.

Rigoletto was adapted from Le Roi S'Amuse by the French writer Victor Hugo. Verdi strengthened the dramatic elements of the play, and expressed characters' internal changes and characteristics through skillful usage of music. Audiences have always been deeply impressed by the three major characters-the indecisive and emotional Rigoletto, the romantic, pompous, and fickle Duke, as well as the pure and kind maid Gilda, who is full of poetic fantasies. Several arias from this opera became world famous later, among which, La Donna è Mobile, with its lively rhythm and fancy tones, became a classic all over the world.

The opera represents extraordinary wholesomeness and harmony, which are very rare in Verdi's works. It symbolized the beginning of a new creation period for Verdi. Since then, his opera music has always been trying to show a colorful world of emotion interweaved with joy and pain, tears and laughter, through which Verdi represented his romanticist style.

Rigoletto, jointly created in June 2009 and presented by Teatro Regio di Parma of Italy and China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), is a stunning part of the 1st NCPA Opera Festival. All the costumes, stage design, and scene setting for Rigoletto were authorized and instructed by Teatro Regio di Parma through "cloning of the original version". The performance, full of classicism color, strictly followed the "Parma" style Italian tradition. NCPA specially invited the 67-year-old world top baritone master Leo Nucci for the role of "Rigoletto" for the premiere, which aroused an exciting "Night of Opera". The zealous audience at the performance moved the baritone master, and he expressed: "I would like to come here for the performance again next year." Therefore, Leo Nucci will appear again in the Opera Festival 2010, which will be another opera event that is not to be missed for the audience."

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