Organization

Regia

Mario Martone

Direzione d'orchestra

Michele Gamba

Luci

Pasquale Mari

Costumi

Ursula Patzak

Scenografia

Margherita Palli

Coreografia

Daniela Schiavone

Cantante

Tenore

Piero Pretti

Il Duca di Mantova

Baritono

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Rigoletto

Soprano

Nadine Sierra

Gilda

Basso

Gianluca Buratto

Sparafucile

Contralto

Marina Viotti

Maddalena

Fabrizio Beggi

Il Conte di Monterone

Direzione del coro

Alberto Malazzi

Mezzosoprano

Andrea Pellegrini

La Contessa di Ceprano

Costantino Finucci

Marullo

Francesco Pittari

Matteo Borsa

Mara Gaudenzi

Un paggio

Rosalia Manuela Cid Tarrio

Teatro alla Scala

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Coro del Teatro alla Scala

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

italiano

Milano

Italia

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.

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