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Staatsoper Hannover

Bariton (+2)

Daniel Luis de Vicente

Rigoletto

Sopraan (+1)

Francesca Pia Vitale

Gilda

Bas (+3)

Markus Suihkonen

Sparafucile

Mezzosopraan (+3)

Ruzana Grigorian

Maddalena

Orchestra

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

Regisseur

Regisseur (+3)

Karsten Wiegand

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Bärbl Hohmann

Kostuum ontwerper

Moritz Junge

Licht ontwerper

Claus Ackenhausen

Koor meester

Koor meester (+1)

Lorenzo Da Rio

Dramaturg

Dramaturg (+3)

Albrecht Puhlmann

Tenor

Mario Rojas

Hertog van Mantua

Bas-bariton (+4)

Frank Schneiders

Graaf van Monterone

Bariton (+3)

Eduardo Martinez

Marullo

Mezzosopraan (+4)

Freya Müller

Gravin van Ceprano

Pagina van de hertogin

Opernhaus

Chorus

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover

Dirigent

Mario Hartmuth

Frank Domnick

Graaf van Ceprano

Bariton (+1)

Henri Tikkanen

Deurwaarder

Tenor (+1)

Patrick Jones

Matteo Borsa

Bas (+2)

Marek Durka

Tenor (+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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