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Rigoletto from Opera de Paris (Opéra Bastille)
RIGOLETTO
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Maria Piave - After Victor Hugo, Le Roi samuse
Opera in 3 acts
Sung in Italian
Opera de Paris (Opéra Bastille)
Recorded Spring 2016
Presented by Alain Duault
Approximate Running Time: 2h 5min
Approximate Running Time by Act:
Act I: 60 min
Act II & III: 65 min
CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Director: Claus Guth
Sets: Christian Schmidt
Costumes: Christian Schmidt
Lighting: Olaf Winter
Choir: Director José Luis Basso
Orchestra and Choir of the Opéra National de ParisARTISTIC TEAM
Il Duca di Mantova: Michael Fabiano
Rigoletto: Quinn Kelsey
Gilda: Olga Peretyatko
Sparafucile: Rafal Siwek
Maddalena: Vesselina Kasarova
Giovanna: Isabelle Druet
Il Conte di Monterone: Mikhail Kolelishvili
Marullo: Michal Partyka
Matteo Borsa: Christophe Berry
Il Conte di Ceprano: Tiago Matos
La Contessa: Andreea Soare
Paggio della Duchessa: Adriana González
Usciere di Corte: Florent Mbia
Presentation
Oh! Victor Hugos Le Roi samuse is the greatest subject, and perhaps the greatest drama of modern times. Its a work worthy of Shakespeare! A few months before he wrote those words to Francesco Maria Piave urging him to turn Venice upside down and persuade the Censor to authorise the subject no easy matter given that moral values would be easily offended Verdi was working on an adaptation of King Lear.
No doubt, he was already imbued with the play by his revered master, Shakespeare, when he read Victor Hugo's drama. On discovering in the works of the French writer to whom he would owe Ernani, the greatest triumph of his difficult years, a parallel with the triangle formed by the King, his daughter and the jester, it was like a thunderbolt, an inspiration. Between the frivolous, licentious Duke, and Gilda, a victim of the ignorance which holds her captive, stands the double-faceted character of the hunchback, both buffoon and curse-obsessed father. Monstrous and heartrending, grotesque and sublime, the title role reaches its apogee in the aria Cortigiani, vil razza dannata, whose descending movement, from the explosion of rage to the moment of entreaty, confirms the composers ability to adapt a form inherited from bel canto to theatrical realism.
Under the baton of Nicola Luisotti, this new production of Rigoletto marks director Claus Guths first collaboration with the Paris Opera.
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