Name: Rigoletto
Start: 2014-09-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-10-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

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Tenor

Saimir Pirgu

The Duke of Mantua

Piero Pretti

Baritone

Dimitri Platanias

Rigoletto

Simon Keenlyside

Soprano

Eri Nakamura

Gilda

Aleksandra Kurzak

Dong-Hwan Lee

The Count of Monterone

Sebastian Holecek

Contralto

Nadezhda Karyazina

Maddalena

Justina Gringyte

Mezzo-soprano

Elizabeth Sikora

Giovanna

Bass

Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Sparafucile

Brindley Sherratt

Duncan Rock

Marullo

Luis Gomes

Matteo Borsa

Jihoon Kim

The Count of Ceprano

Kiandra Howarth

The Countess of Ceprano

Andrea Hazell

A page

Nigel Cliffe

A court usher

Conductor

Maurizio Benini

Stage director

David McVicar

Costume designer

Tanya McCallin

Set designer

Michael Vale

Assistant Director

Greg Eldridge

Royal Opera House

London

United Kingdom

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Ekaterina Siurina sings Gilda's aria 'Caro nome' from Act I of Verdi's Rigoletto.

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Giuseppe Verdi wrote in 1855 that Rigoletto, based on Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse, was his ‘best opera’. He had to overcome state censorship to stage it – the censors objected to its depiction of an immoral ruler – but he was vindicated by the premiere’s huge success in 1851. Rigoletto was performed 250 times in the next 10 years and has remained one of the most popular of all operas.

David McVicar’s production highlights the cruelty and degeneracy at the heart of the court of Mantua. Richly dressed courtiers engage in brutal orgies and revelries to Verdi's spirited dances. In contrast, Rigoletto lives in a rundown hovel and laments his unhappy existence in a powerful soliloquy. Along with this and Rigoletto’s Act II aria ‘Cortigiani, vil razza dannata!’, musical highlights include the ebullient ‘La donna è mobile’, in which the Duke boasts of his disregard for women; Gilda’s exquisite duets with Rigoletto and the Duke; and the quartet in Act III that weaves the voices together as the story quickens to its shattering conclusion.

Rigoletto - 'Caro nome' (Ekaterina Siurina, The Royal Opera)

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