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Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Giuseppe Mentuccia

Conductor (+3)

Simone Di Felice

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Hendrik Müller

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Rifail Ajdarpasic

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Katharina Weissenborn

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Jan Hartmann

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Tilman Michael

Dramaturge

Zsolt Horpácsy

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Karolina Makuła

Giovanna

Bass-baritone (+7)

Erik Van Heyningen

The Count of Monterone

Tenor (+6)

Michael McCown

Matteo Borsa

Baritone (+1)

Sakhiwe Mkosana

The Count of Ceprano

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Helene Feldbauer

The Countess of Ceprano

Revival Stage Director

Stage director (+2)

Silvia Gatto

Álvaro Corral Matute

Assistant Conductor

Lukas Rommelspacher

Head Of Studies

Conductor (+4)

Takeshi Moriuchi

Répétiteur

Pianist (+2)

In Sun Suh

Assistant Costume Designer

Annette Pach

Stage Manager

Gaby Priebe

Lighting Technician

Katja Drewanz

Extras

Executive producer (+1)

Wolfgang Kubat

Opernhaus

Chorus

Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

Tenor (+2)

Abraham Bretón

The Duke of Mantua

Baritone (+2)

Franco Vassallo

Rigoletto

Daniel Luis de Vicente

Soprano (+1)

Kseniia Proshina

Gilda

Bass-baritone (+3)

Kihwan Sim

Sparafucile

Bass (+5)

Thomas Faulkner

Contralto (+4)

Katharina Magiera

Maddalena

Zanda Švēde

Baritone (+3)

Mikołaj Trąbka

Marullo

Bianca Tognocchi

Liviu Holender

Tenor (+4)

Martin Mitterrutzner

Court jester Rigoletto, his daughter Gilda and his master, the Duke of Mantua, inhabit a gloomy world: Protagonists in a story about wounded souls, trying to avoid a tragic end. Rigoletto humiliates people, winding them up against each other and keeping his daughter prisoner in an artificial world. It only took Gilda and the Duke exchanging one glance, to make her guess what love could be. She identifies herself with deceptive freedom and sacrifices her life to save the Duke’s. Based on works by Victor Hugo and dark romantic romanticism, Verdi composed an unbelievably tight, revolutionary score. Director Hendrik Müller didn’t shy away from strong visual and harsh effects in his production, without losing sight of the title figure’s tragic self-destruction.

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