Rigoletto
Opera Festival 2019-20
Giuseppe Verdi
- Opéra de Lyon
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2 hours40 minutes
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- In Italian
- Subtitled
A work of great darkness and high intensity, Rigoletto probes the torments of the soul, as rarely before by this Italian composer. This turning point in Verdian art is here being confronted with the singular universe of the stage director Axel Ranisch.
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Concerning
Synopsis
Rigoletto, the jester of the Duke of Mantau, a depraved seducer, secretly protects his daughter Gilda from attention and danger, in fear of a curse pronounced by Monterone. But the Duke kidnaps and seduces Gilda, who falls in love with him. Dishonoured, Rigoletto engages a killer to assassinate the Duke. But Gilda has taken his place and is killed instead. The curse has been acted out. The meeting of two universes A black masterpiece, adapted from a rather unsuccessful play by Victor Hugo, whose characters Verdi carefully altered so as to avoid censorship, Rigoletto triumphed at the Fenice in Venice in 1851. It stands as the extremely dense first part of Verdi’s trilogy, which was to be completed by Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Ever ready to put one voice in the limelight, here it is the baritone that the composer honours in the tormented role of the jester, a concentration of the contradictions of the human condition, here entrusted to Roberto Frontali. As for the stage direction, the Berlin director and filmmaker Axel Ranisch will, for the first time, confront a piece by Verdi with his own offbeat universe, tinged with a burlesque melancholy, love of the circus and punk poetry. There can be no doubt that the meeting of these two artistic worlds will produce a result full of surprises.
Opera in three acts, 1851
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
New production
Cast
Stage direction
Axel Ranisch
Sets
Falko Herold
Costumes
NN
Lightings
Michael Bauer
Dramaturgy
Rainer Karlitschek
Chorus Master
Johannes Knecht
The Duke of Mantua
Mykhailo Malafii
Rigoletto
Roberto Frontali
Gilda
Nina Minasyan
Sparafucile
Wenwei Zhang
Maddalena
Agata Schmidt
The knight Marullo
Daniele Terenzi
Orchestra and Choruses of the Opéra de Lyon
My Evening
Pourquoi on aime
Rigoletto est le volet fondateur de la trilogie « populaire » d'un Verdi qui tombe le masque.
Pourquoi on aime
La rencontre Verdi / Ranish est un véritable choc esthétique.
Pourquoi on aime
Rigoletto est l'œuvre du triomphe du baryton verdien.