Name: Rigoletto
Start: 2002-09-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2003-07-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Soprano

Isabel Rey

Gilda

Contralto

Carmen Oprisanu

Maddalena

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

The Duke of Mantua

Baritone

Leo Nucci

Rigoletto

Bass

László Polgár

Sparafucile

Pavel Daniluk

The Count of Monterone

Conductor

Nello Santi

Stage director

Gilbert Deflo

Opernhaus Zürich

Zurich

Switzerland

Opernhaus

Rigoletto tells the story of the crippled court jester Rigoletto and his adored daughter Gilda, whom he desperately tries to protect from the advances of the pleasure-loving Duke of Mantua. While Gilda naïvely gives credence to the Duke’s amorous advances, he is concerned only with constantly changing erotic relationships, of which he boasts in his famous aria Questa o quella. Rigoletto fails. A terrible curse uttered against him by Count Monterone, whom he had once ridiculed before the entire court, comes true: at the end he holds his beloved daughter dead in his arms.

Rigoletto Verdi

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading