Organization

Stage director

Andreas Homoki

Lighting designer

Manfred Voss

Costume designer

Wolfgang Gussmann

Set designer

Singer

Tenor

Piotr Buszewski

The Duke of Mantua

Baritone

Andrzej Dobber

Rigoletto

Soprano

Nadezhda Pavlova

Gilda

Bass

Tigran Martirossian

Sparafucile

Contralto

Jana Kurucová

Maddalena

Mezzo-soprano

Katja Pieweck

Giovanna

Martin Summer

The Count of Monterone

Chao Deng

Marullo

Seungwoo Simon Yang

Matteo Borsa

Hubert Kowalczyk

The Count of Ceprano

Sujin Choi

The Countess of Ceprano

Han Kim

A court usher

Kady Evanyshyn

A page

Conductor

Roberto Rizzi Brignoli

Chorus master

Christian Günther

Staatsoper Hamburg

Others

Hamburg State Opera Choir

Orchestra

Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg

Italian

Hamburg

Germany

Staatsoper

Großes Haus

Rigoletto Verdi

Public

German

Approved

The hunchbacked court jester Rigoletto, never at a loss for a joke at the expense of others, is in the service of the Duke of Mantua. His only happiness in life is his daughter Gilda. When Rigoletto witnesses how she succumbs to the unscrupulous duke's calculating oaths of love, he seeks revenge: the contract killer Sparafucile is supposed to kill the seducer. But Gilda sacrifices herself for her lover. Rigoletto realizes that he drove his daughter to death and destroyed his own life.
Ever since Rigoletto first appeared on the opera stage in Venice in 1851, his fate has moved opera audiences. Giuseppe Verdi, however, brought the piece to world fame with its melodies that are omnipresent to this day - a piece entirely without heroes: And so Rigoletto, cynic and lovesick father, also joins the broad ranks of Verdi's characters who are on the fringes of society and those before had no voice in operatic art.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble