Organization

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Kirsten Corbett

Singer

Bass

Marek Durka

The Count of Ceprano

Baritone

Gagik Vardanyan

Marullo

Tenor

Long Long

The Duke of Mantua

Daniel Luis de Vicente

Rigoletto

Soprano

Sarah Brady

Gilda

Mercedes Arcuri

Markus Suihkonen

Sparafucile

Pavel Chervinsky

Contralto

Ruzana Grigorian

Maddalena

Frank Schneider

The Count of Monterone

Mezzo-soprano

Petra Radulovic

The Countess of Ceprano

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Stage director

Karsten Wiegand

Conductor

James Hendry

Lighting designer

Claus Ackenhausen

Costume designer

Moritz Junge

Set designer

Bärbl Hohmann

Dramaturge

Albrecht Puhlmann

Chorus master

Lorenzo Da Rio

Hubert Zapiór

Paweł Brożek

Matteo Borsa

Mikołaj Trąbka

Konu Kim

Philipp Kapeller

Staatsoper Hannover

Others

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover

Orchestra

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

Italian

Hanover

Germany

Opernhaus

Rigoletto Verdi

Public

German

Approved

A disfigured, cynical entertainer, at the mercy of power, a father who hides his adolescent daughter in panic, a humiliated outsider who, in his greed for revenge, unleashes the tragedy that will cost his daughter her life – the story of Rigoletto, who tries in vain to hide his daughter Gilda from the world and an aristocratic seducer, is one of the great narratives of musical theatre.
Gilda has long since fallen for the seductive
duke. When his henchmen kidnap her, her father sees Rigoletto red. He pays the contract killer Sparafucile to kill the duke and plans to secretly leave the city with Gilda. But Gilda resists her father's will and goes to the place where the duke is to be murdered in the stormy thunderstorm night. Since the triumphant premiere of Rigoletto in 1851 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the work has rightly been continuously on the repertoire of opera houses.

Verdi's breathtaking composition draws the characters with beguiling vocal lines and subtle orchestral design: a profound musical drama with psychologically sophisticated characters and situations.
Karsten Wiegand also places the inner drama of the title character at the centre of his
production. Rigoletto is degraded to the ridiculed clown of a pleasure-seeking and empathetic class that dances on the precipice as a farce, as a caricature of itself. The Spanish-American baritone Daniel Luis de Vicente, who will also make a guest appearance at the Bregenz Festival as Rigoletto on the lake stage this summer, will make his Hanover debut, operalia and tenor Viñas winner Long Long will sing one of the most famous Verdi arias, "La Donna è mobile", as the Duke of Mantua.

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