Rigoletto at McCallum Theatre

First in a trilogy of operas composed amazing The troubadour and La Traviata , Rigoletto is primarily a real drama of passion, betrayal, love and revenge inspired by the play of Victor Hugo, the king fun . Rigoletto not only offers a perfect combination of melodic richness and dramatic power, but it highlights the social tensions and the subordinate status of women in which the public of the nineteenth century can easily relate to. It is from Rigoletto Verdi gives the opera, the most beautiful voice.

Authors

• Francesco Maria Piave
• Giuseppe Verdi