Organization

Stage director

Mario Martone

Conductor

Michele Gamba

Lighting designer

Pasquale Mari

Costume designer

Ursula Patzak

Set designer

Margherita Palli

Choreographer

Daniela Schiavone

Singer

Tenor

Piero Pretti

The Duke of Mantua

Baritone

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Rigoletto

Soprano

Nadine Sierra

Gilda

Bass

Gianluca Buratto

Sparafucile

Contralto

Marina Viotti

Maddalena

Fabrizio Beggi

The Count of Monterone

Chorus master

Alberto Malazzi

Mezzo-soprano

Andrea Pellegrini

The Countess of Ceprano

Costantino Finucci

Marullo

Francesco Pittari

Matteo Borsa

Mara Gaudenzi

A page

Rosalia Cid

Teatro alla Scala

Others

Coro del Teatro alla Scala

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Italian

Milan

Italy

Discover Verdi’s masterpiece Rigoletto in this new production by Mario Martone at La Scala in Milan, with a fabulous cast of singers including Nadine Sierra, Piero Pretti, and Amartüvshin Enkbath in the lead roles, with the hall’s legendary orchestra conducted by Michele Gamba.

Verdi was 38 when he composed his seventeenth opera Rigoletto, the first part of his “popular trilogy” with Il Trovatore and La Traviata. The story, based on Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse, narrates the love affairs of the Duke of Mantua, cheered on by his jester, Rigoletto. The opera is a masterpiece in its own right, not only due to the many difficulties it faced in production (including state censorship), but above all because of its artistic qualities: masterfully clear orchestral writing, pointed musical and psychological characterization (even of secondary characters), melodic innovation, dramatic cohesion…Rigoletto marks an evolutionary step in the oeuvre of Verdi, who began to see the scene, rather than the aria, as the fundamental building block of his musical dramas, making the operatic experience more salient and free-flowing.

Photo: Nadine Sierra © Cyr Merri

Discover Verdi’s masterpiece Rigoletto in this new production by Mario Martone at La Scala in Milan, with a fabulous cast of singers including Nadine Sierra, Piero Pretti, and Amartüvshin Enkbath in the lead roles, with the hall’s legendary orchestra conducted by Michele Gamba.

Verdi was 38 when he composed his seventeenth opera Rigoletto, the first part of his “popular trilogy” with Il Trovatore and La Traviata. The story, based on Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse, narrates the love affairs of the Duke of Mantua, cheered on by his jester, Rigoletto. The opera is a masterpiece in its own right, not only due to the many difficulties it faced in production (including state censorship), but above all because of its artistic qualities: masterfully clear orchestral writing, pointed musical and psychological characterization (even of secondary characters), melodic innovation, dramatic cohesion… Rigoletto marks an evolutionary step in the oeuvre of Verdi, who began to see the scene, rather than the aria, as the fundamental building block of his musical dramas, making the operatic experience more salient and free-flowing.

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading