Rigoletto, teemusicbyverdi, ft»repttsenttuattftcuoaoonitalian©pera-rouses, anenglishversion, and themusicoftheprincipalairs. London: davidson'smusicalopera-books. Rigoletto enters his home where he is greeted by his daughter, Gilda. She is the figure that the noblemen suspect to be his lover. Rigoletto has kept Gilda secret from the Duke and Gilda does not know about Rigoletto’s job at the palace. The only place Gilda is allowed to go is church and she has recently fallen in love with a young man. Il Duca di Mantova (tenor) Rigoletto, buffone di Corte (baritone) Gilda, figlia di Rigoletto (soprano) Sparafucile, bravo (basso) Maddalena, sua sorella (contralto) Giovanna, custode di Gilda (mezzo-soprano) Il Conte di Monterone (baritone) Marullo, cavaliere (baritono) Matteo Borsa, cortigiano (tenor) Il Conte di Ceprano (basso).
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Set design by Philippe Chaperon. Librettist Language Italian Based on by Premiere 11 March 1851 ( 1851-03-11), Venice Rigoletto ( pronounced ) is an in three acts. The Italian was written by based on the play. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at in Venice on 11 March 1851. It is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career. Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed Rigoletto and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement.
The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father. The librettist of Rigoletto Verdi was commissioned to write a new opera by the opera house in in 1850. By this time he was already a well-known composer and had a degree of freedom in choosing the works he would prefer to set to music. He then asked (with whom he had already created, and ) to examine the play Kean by, but he felt he needed a more energetic subject to work on.
Verdi soon stumbled upon Victor Hugo's five-act play. He later explained that 'The subject is grand, immense, and there is a character that is one of the greatest creations that the theatre can boast of, in any country and in all history.'
It was a highly controversial subject, and Hugo himself had already had trouble with in France, which had banned productions after its first performance nearly twenty years earlier (it would not be performed again until 1882). As Austria directly, it came before the Austrian Board of Censors. Hugo's play depicted a king as an immoral and cynical womanizer, something that was not accepted in Europe during the.
From the beginning, Verdi was aware of the risks, as was Piave. In a letter which Verdi wrote to Piave: 'Use four legs, run through the town and find me an influential person who can obtain the permission for making Le Roi s'amuse.'
Correspondence between a prudent Piave and an already committed Verdi followed, but the two underestimated the power and the intentions of Austrians and remained at risk. Even the friendly Guglielmo Brenna, secretary of La Fenice, who had promised them that they would not have problems with the censors, was wrong. At the beginning of the summer of 1850, rumours started to spread that Austrian censorship was going to forbid the production. The censors considered the Hugo work to verge on and would never permit such a scandalous work to be performed in Venice. In August, Verdi and Piave prudently retired to, Verdi's hometown, to continue the composition and prepare a defensive scheme. They wrote to the theatre, assuring them that the censor's doubts about the morality of the work were not justified but since very little time was left, very little could be done. At the time, Piave and Verdi had titled the opera La maledizione (The Curse), and this unofficial title was used by Austrian censor De Gorzkowski in an emphatic letter written in December 1850 in which he definitively denied consent to its production, calling it 'a repugnant example of immorality and obscene triviality.'
The first Gilda 19th-century productions Rigoletto premiered on 11 March 1851 in a sold-out La Fenice as the first part of a double bill with 's ballet Faust. Gaetano Mares conducted, and the sets were designed and executed by Giuseppe Bertoja and. The opening night was a complete triumph, especially the scena drammatica and the Duke's cynical, ', which was sung in the streets the next morning (Verdi had maximised the aria's impact by only revealing it to the cast and orchestra a few hours before the premiere, and forbidding them to sing, whistle or even think of the melody outside of the theatre). Many years later, Giulia Cora Varesi, the daughter of Felice Varesi (the original Rigoletto), described her father's performance at the premiere. Varesi was very uncomfortable with the false hump he had to wear; he was so uncertain that, even though he was quite an experienced singer, he had a panic attack when it was his turn to enter the stage. Verdi immediately realised he was paralysed and roughly pushed him on the stage, so he appeared with a clumsy tumble. The audience, thinking it was an intentional gag, was very amused.
Rigoletto was a great box-office success for La Fenice and Verdi's first major Italian triumph since the 1847 premiere of in Florence. It initially had a run of 13 performances and was revived in Venice the following year, and again in 1854. Despite a rather disastrous production in shortly after its initial run at La Fenice, the opera soon entered the repertory of Italian theatres. By 1852, it had premiered in all the major cities of Italy, although sometimes under different titles due to the vagaries of censorship (e.g.
As Viscardello, Lionello, and Clara de Perth). From 1852, it also began to be performed in major cities worldwide, reaching as far afield as and in 1854 and both and in 1855. The UK premiere took place on 14 May 1853 at what is now the, Covent Garden in London with as the Duke of Mantua and as Rigoletto. In the US, the opera was first seen on 19 February 1855 at New York's in a performance by the. 20th century and beyond In modern times, it has become a staple of the standard operatic repertoire. It appears as number 9 (with 395 performances) on the list of the most-performed operas worldwide between 2008/2009 and 2012/13 seasons, and was also the 9th most frequently performed opera in Italy during that period. Several modern productions have radically changed the original setting.
These include 's 1982 production for the, which is set amongst the in New York City's during the 1950s; 's 2005 production for the, where the Court of Mantua became; director Linda Brovsky's production for Seattle Opera, placing the story in Mussolini's fascist Italy, in 2004 (repeated in 2014); and 's 2013 production for the, which is set in a casino in 1960s. Different characters portray different archetypes from the era, with the Duke becoming a -type character and Rigoletto becoming. In March 2014, artistic director of Australia's Opera Queensland staged the opera set in the party-going world of disgraced former Italian prime minister.
Rigoletto Libretto English Italian
1: Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse At a ball in his palace, the Duke sings of a life of pleasure with as many women as possible: 'Questa o quella' ('This woman or that'). He has seen an unknown beauty in church and desires to possess her, but he also wishes to seduce the Countess of Ceprano. Rigoletto, the Duke's hunchbacked court jester, mocks the husbands of the ladies to whom the Duke is paying attention, including the Count Ceprano, and advises the Duke to get rid of him by prison or death.
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The Duke laughs indulgently, but Ceprano is not amused. Marullo, one of the guests at the ball, informs the courtiers that Rigoletto has a 'lover', which astonishes them.
The courtiers resolve to take vengeance on Rigoletto for making fun of them. The festivities are interrupted by the arrival of the elderly Count Monterone, whose daughter the Duke had seduced. Rigoletto provokes him further by making fun of his helplessness to avenge his daughter's honor.
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Monterone confronts the Duke, and is immediately arrested by the Duke's guards. Before being led off to prison, Monterone curses Rigoletto for having mocked his righteous anger. The curse terrifies Rigoletto, who believes the popular superstition that an old man's curse has real power.