Organization

Singer

Tenor

Alessandro Scotto di Luzio

The Duke of Mantua

Baritone

Boaz Daniel

Rigoletto

Soprano

Sarah Gilford

Gilda

Contralto

Veronika Dünser

Maddalena

Mezzo-soprano

Olena Pruscha

Giovanna

Karl Huml

The Count of Monterone

Taras Kuźmych

Marullo

David Jagodic

Matteo Borsa

Bass

Gregor Einspieler-Springer

The Count of Ceprano

Tetjana Prybura

The Countess of Ceprano

Josef Pepper

A court usher

Larissa Gabshiy

A page

Stage director

Robert Schuster

Conductor

Nicholas Milton

Costume designer

Sascha Gross

Set designer

Dramaturge

Markus Hänsel

Chorus master

Günter Wallner

Michael Spassov

Daniel Luis de Vicente

Marian Pop

Marie Heeschen

Antoin Herrera-López Kessel

Sparafucile

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Others

Men's choir and men of the extra choir of the Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Orchestra

Kärntner Sinfonieorchester

Extras of the Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Italian

Klagenfurt

Austria

Rigoletto Verdi

Public

Private

German

Approved

RIGOLETTO Melodrama in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi / Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the verse drama »Le roi s'amuse« (1832) by Victor Hugo / In Italian with German surtitles Premiere March 17, 2022 Stadttheater Klagenfurt MUSICAL DIRECTION Nicholas Milton DIRECTOR Robert Schuster STAGE AND COSTUMES Sascha Gross CHOIR STUDIES Günter Wallner LIGHTING Helmut Stultschnig DRAMATURGY Markus Hänsel DUKE OF MANTUA Alessandro Scotto di Luzio RIGOLETTO Boaz Daniel / Marian Pop / Daniel Luis De Vicente (09.04.) GILDA Sarah Gilford SPARAFUCILE Antoin Herrera MADDALENA Veronika Dünser GIOVANNA Olena Pruscha COUNT OF MONTERONE Karl Huml MARULLO Taras Kuzmych MATTEO BORSA David Jagodic COUNT OF CEPRANO Gregor Einspieler-Springer COUNTESS OF CEPRANO Tetjana Prybura PAGE Larissa Gabshiy BAILMAN Josef Pepper Carinthian Symphony Orchestra Men's Choir and Men's Extra Choir Extras of the Stadttheater Klagenfurt TRAILER Verena Schellander

Can an ugly person love? A handsome young man heartless, even angry? If the social questions raised in Rigoletto still seemed revolutionary and progressive when the work was written, today they not only contradict all political correctness, but also appear downright inhuman. And yet the emotional truthfulness of the characters and the grandiose mixture of political drama and family tragedy in Verdi's opera still captivate audiences to this day.

Rigoletto is the first opera in Giuseppe Verdi's »trilogia popolare«. As in La Traviata and Il Trovatore , the plot revolves around a person on the fringes of society. Not only his physical deformity, but also his immoderate and arrogant behavior made the court jester Rigoletto an outsider at the court of the Duke of Mantua. The only happiness in life is his daughter Gilda, whom he carefully keeps hidden. But the courtiers use a ruse to kidnap Gilda and hand him over to the unscrupulous duke. When Rigoletto learns that Gilda loves her seducer, he hires an assassin to kill the duke. But Gilda voluntarily sacrifices her life for her love.

Even those who have never heard the name Rigoletto can at least whistle along to the melody of the canzone La donna è mobile , which has become the epitome of Italianità thanks to pizza advertising. The work is being staged by Robert Schuster, who, after the highly poetic success of Peter Handke's The Hour Since We Didn't Know About Each Other, is returning to the Klagenfurt City Theater with his set designer Sascha Gross.

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