Organization

Stage director

Herbert Föttinger

Lighting designer

Michael Heidinger

Costume designer

Alfred Mayerhofer

Set designer

Walter Vogelweider

Video designer

Raphael Kurig

Meike Ebert

Choreographer

Karl Alfred Schreiner

Dramaturge

Fedora Wesseler

Chorus master

Pietro Numico

Singer

Tenor

Lucian Krasznec

The Duke of Mantua

Baritone

Matija Meić

Rigoletto

Soprano

Jennifer O'Loughlin

Gilda

Ilia Staple

Bass

Sava Vemić

Sparafucile

Contralto

Anna-Katharina Tonauer

Maddalena

Mezzo-soprano

Ann-Katrin Naidu

Giovanna

Timos Sirlantzis

The Count of Monterone

Ludwig Mittelhammer

Marullo

Caspar Krieger

Matteo Borsa

Holger Ohlmann

The Count of Ceprano

Andreja Zidaric

The Countess of Ceprano

Martin Hausberg

A court usher

Emma Sventelius

A page

Conductor

Oleg Ptashnikov

Alexander Grassauer

Elaine Ortiz Arandes

Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

Others

Extrachor des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

Chor des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

Orchestra

Orchester des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

Italian

Munich

Germany

Gärtnerplatztheater

Rigoletto Verdi

Public

German

Approved

Oper von Guiseppe Verdigaertnerplatztheater.de/rigolettoPremiere am 30. Januar 2020Libretto von Francesco Maria PiaveNach dem Melodrama »Le roi s’amuse« von ...

The Duke of Mantua loves pleasure and women. He has a cynical henchman in his court jester Rigoletto, because nothing and nobody is sacred to the hunchback – except Gilda, his only child. To protect her from his master's snares, he keeps her hidden from the world. But the curse of the Count of Monterone, whose daughter was dishonored by the Duke, falls on Rigoletto and a brutal fate takes its course...

»Rigoletto«, one of the most touching and, at the same time, most horrific works in operatic literature, established Giuseppe Verdi's world fame as the absolute ruler of Italian opera. He himself believed that he would never be able to create anything so beautiful again. Composed on the basis of Victor Hugo's atmospheric drama »Le roi s'amuse«, the opera combines all the elements that opera audiences loved around 1851 and that still inspire today: a cynical outsider figure in the midst of lust and violence, guilt and innocence. The Viennese theater director and director Herbert Föttinger devotes himself to the abysses of the characters and brings the ice-cold, brutal world around the duke, which increases Rigoletto's longing for family warmth, to the stage in a powerful and rich in contrast.

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble