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Staatsoper Hannover

Baryton (+2)

Daniel Luis de Vicente

Rigoletto

Sopran (+1)

Francesca Pia Vitale

Gilda

Bas (+3)

Markus Suihkonen

Sparafucile

Mezzosopran (+3)

Ruzana Grigorian

Maddalena

Orchestra

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

Regissör

Regissör (+3)

Karsten Wiegand

Scenograf

Scenograf (+1)

Bärbl Hohmann

Kostym designer

Moritz Junge

Ljus designer

Claus Ackenhausen

Körledare

Körledare (+1)

Lorenzo Da Rio

Dramaturg

Dramaturg (+3)

Albrecht Puhlmann

Tenor

Mario Rojas

Il Duca di Mantova

Bas-baryton (+4)

Frank Schneiders

Il Conte di Monterone

Baryton (+3)

Eduardo Martinez

Marullo

Mezzosopran (+4)

Freya Müller

La Contessa di Ceprano

Un paggio

Opernhaus

Chorus

Chor der Staatsoper Hannover

Dirigent

Mario Hartmuth

Frank Domnick

Il Conte di Ceprano

Baryton (+1)

Henri Tikkanen

Un usciere di corte

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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