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Staatsoper Hannover

Baritono (+2)

Daniel Luis de Vicente

Rigoletto

Soprano (+1)

Francesca Pia Vitale

Gilda

Basso (+3)

Markus Suihkonen

Sparafucile

Mezzosoprano (+3)

Ruzana Grigorian

Maddalena

Orchestra

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

Regia

Regia (+3)

Karsten Wiegand

Scenografia

Scenografia (+1)

Bärbl Hohmann

Costumi

Moritz Junge

Luci

Claus Ackenhausen

Direzione del coro

Direzione del coro (+1)

Lorenzo Da Rio

Drammaturgo

Drammaturgo (+3)

Albrecht Puhlmann

Tenore

Mario Rojas

The Duke of Mantua

Basso-baritono (+4)

Frank Schneiders

The Count of Monterone

Baritono (+3)

Eduardo Martinez

Marullo

Mezzosoprano (+4)

Freya Müller

The Countess of Ceprano

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Chorus

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover

Direttore d'orchestra

Mario Hartmuth

Frank Domnick

The Count of Ceprano

Baritono (+1)

Henri Tikkanen

A court usher

Tenore (+1)

Patrick Jones

Matteo Borsa

Basso (+2)

Marek Durka

Tenore (+3)

Mohsen Rashidkhan

Masaru Kumakura

Jae Wook Yoo

A disfigured, cynical entertainer at the mercy of the benevolence of the powerful, a father who frantically keeps his adolescent daughter hidden, a humiliated outsider who, in his craving for revenge, triggers the very tragedy that will cost his daughter’s life – the tale of Rigoletto, who tries in vain to hide his daughter Gilda from the world and from an aristocratic seducer, is one of the great stories of musical theatre.

Gilda has already fallen for the enticing Duke. When his henchmen kidnap the girl, her father Rigoletto sees red. He pays professional hitman Sparafucile to kill the Duke and plans to flee the city with Gilda in secret. But Gilda defies her father’s wishes and goes to the location where the Duke is to be killed on this stormy night of thunder and lightning.

Ever since its triumphant world premiere at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice in 1851, Rigoletto has quite rightly enjoyed an unbroken history of performances at opera houses across the world. Verdi’s breath-taking composition outlines the characters in enchanting vocal lines and subtle configurations of the orchestra: a profound musical drama with psychologically sophisticated characters and situations. Director Karsten Wiegand places the title character’s inner drama at the centre of his staging. Rigoletto has been degraded, a clown to be sneered at by a pleasure-seeking class with no empathy, dancing at the edge of the abyss, a farce, a caricature of themselves.

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