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Rigoletto

In Jonathan Miller's interpretation of Verdi's opera, the story of Rigoletto unfolds in New York's mob-controlled Little Italy in the 1950s. Rigoletto, a clowning bartender, moves about in a world of criminals, a world he keeps well away from his daughter, Gilda. During a party, Rigoletto angers Don Monterone, who puts his curse on him. And so a fatal chain of events are set in motion as Gilda meets the philandering Duke and the story moves to its tragic conclusion.

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  • "Giuseppe Verdi"@en
  • "Kraus, Nucci, Serra, Pertusi in Rigoletto"
  • "Kraus Rigoletto"
  • "Verdi through the looking glass"
  • "弄臣"
  • "Jonathan Miller's production of Verdi's Rigoletto"@en
  • "Wei er di"@en
  • "Opera Spanga presents"
  • "威爾第"
  • "Verdi's Rigoletto at Verona"@en
  • "Verdi's Rigoletto at Verona"
  • "Nong chen"@en
  • "Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto story"

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  • "Rappresentazione teatrale della celebre opera di Giuseppe Verdi."@it
  • "In Jonathan Miller's interpretation of Verdi's opera, the story of Rigoletto unfolds in New York's mob-controlled Little Italy in the 1950s. Rigoletto, a clowning bartender, moves about in a world of criminals, a world he keeps well away from his daughter, Gilda. During a party, Rigoletto angers Don Monterone, who puts his curse on him. And so a fatal chain of events are set in motion as Gilda meets the philandering Duke and the story moves to its tragic conclusion."@en
  • "John Dexter's riveting production, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, captures the dark passions of Verdi's ever popular opera. Cornell MacNeil, in the role of his sensational Met debut, is the tortured hunchback jester, desperate to protect his daughter, Gilda, from the lascivious Duke of Mantua. Ileana Cotrubas is at her most affecting as the innocent girl who sacrifices herself for love. Plácido Domingo's golden voice and suave appeal are perfect for the charming but faithless Duke. James Levine conducts."
  • "The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra started its season with a great Gala Concert conducted by music director Gustavo Dudamel. As special guest: star tenor Juan Diego Florez. The programme includes popular arias by Rossini as well as famous songs by Latin-American composers. Programme: Rossini, Overture to 'La gazza ladra', Overture to 'Semiramide', 'La Speranza piu soave' from Semiramide, Overture to Guillaume Tell, 'Asil ereditaire' from Guillaume Tell; Granada (arr. Florez),' La flor de la canela'; Mancayo,' Huapango'; Grever (arr. Guinovart), 'Jurame'; Gutierrez (arr. Pena), 'Alma Ilanera'; Marquez, Danzon No. 2; Encores: Verdi, 'La donna e mobile' from Rigoletto; Gounod: 'Ah, leve toi soleil' from Romeo and Juliette."
  • ""In June 2008, Giuseppe Verdi temporarily replaced Richard Strauss as the presiding genius at Dresden's Semperoper as baritone Zeljko Lucic, soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Juan Diego Florez came together for a new production of Rigoletto, directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff and conducted by Fabio Luisi, chief conductor of the Semperoper, Dresden, General Music Director-elect of the Zurich Opera, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera"--VirginClassics.com."
  • "Summary: Verdi's opera about a jester whose attempts to shield his young beautiful daughter from a captivating duke has tragic consequences."
  • "Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a ladies man who feels his life would be meaningless if he couldn't chase every skirt he sees. In fact, we learn as the opera begins that he's recently been noticing a young lady every Sunday on her way to church, and he's vowed to have his way with her. What nobody realizes is that the girl is the jester's beloved daughter, Gilda, and that Gilda has seen the Duke every Sunday and is smitten with him. Suddenly Count Monterone appears at court, furious that the Duke has seduced his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them. Later, the courtiers discover that Rigoletto is secretly living with Gilda, whom they believe to be his mistress. In an attempt to humiliate Rigoletto, they kidnap Gilda and deliver her to the Duke's bedroom, where she is quite willing to let him have his way with her. Rigoletto returns to the court and reveals to the courtiers' amusement that Gilda is his daughter. Consumed with the desire for revenge, Rigoletto contacts a murderous thief named Sparafucile (who just happens to have a beautiful sister named Maddalena), and he contracts with the two of them to lure the Duke to Sparafucile's tavern on the river where Sparafucile will murder the Duke. Knowing the Duke will find Maddalena irresistible, Rigoletto takes Gilda to stand outside the tavern so she can see for herself that the Duke is not a faithful lover. Gilda is crushed as she looks through the window to see the Duke wooing Maddalena, and at Rigoletto's urging she dons men's clothing so she can return home safely by herself."
  • "Luciano Pavarotti is the elegant, reckless Duke of Mantua whose betrayal of the innocent Gilda (Christiane Eda-Pierre) leads to a tragic ending. Louis Quilico plays Rigoletto, the court jester and Gilda's father, who has dedicated his life to keeping his daughter away from the Duke--only to have her sacrifice her own life for the villainous nobleman. James Levine's conducting brings out the scorching drama in Verdi's unforgettable score."
  • "A performance of Verdi's opera Rigoletto, with 19th century costumes."
  • "A performance of the Verdi opera about the deformed court jester named Rigoletto who works for the licentious Duke of Mantua and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter, Gilda. Gilda falls in love with the Duke when he poses as a penniless student. Courtiers later abduct Gilda and take her to the Duke; Rigoletto vows revenge and hires an assassin to kill the Duke. Instead Gilda sacrifices herself for her lover and dies in her father's arms."
  • "A filmed performance of Verdi's tragic opera dealing with love, lust, revenge, betrayal and death in sixteenth century Mantua."
  • ""For Verdi, Victor Hugo's play Le Roi S'amuse was 'arguably the greatest drama of the present day'. But many of his contemporaries were scandalized by this tale of corpses, jesters, cripples and a king addicted to venal love. And yet this no doubt helps to explain why Rigoletto turned out to be Verdi's second great success and laid the foundations for his emergence as Italy's leading opera composer"--Container."@en
  • ""For Verdi, Victor Hugo's play Le Roi S'amuse was 'arguably the greatest drama of the present day'. But many of his contemporaries were scandalized by this tale of corpses, jesters, cripples and a king addicted to venal love. And yet this no doubt helps to explain why Rigoletto turned out to be Verdi's second great success and laid the foundations for his emergence as Italy's leading opera composer"--Container."
  • "But she returns to the tavern to overhear Rigoletto and Sparafucile plotting to kill the Duke. Then, after Rigoletto leaves, she hears Maddalena pleading with Sparafucile not to kill the Duke, but instead to kill the first person who comes through the door and give that body to Rigoletto instead. Sparafucile objects that he is an honest thief and murderer, but Maddalena's entreaties win him over and he agrees to the plan. Gilda now realizes what she must do: she knocks on the door, enters the tavern and is stabbed (nearly) to death by Sparafucile. The thief then wraps her in a rug and drops her body through a trap door to Rigoletto, who is waiting in a boat below. Thinking he has won vengeance at last on the Duke, Rigoletto paddles onto the river to dispose of the body. Then he hears the Duke singing in the distance, opens the rug, and to his horror he discovers his almost-dead daughter. They sing a heartbreaking duet, Gilda dies, and the wretched Rigoletto wails that the curse has come to pass. (Written by Bill Anderson)."
  • "One of Opera Australia's best-loved productions, Elijah Moshinsky's retelling of Rigoletto draws Verdi's dark melodrama into a modern day mafioso underworld, inspired by Federico Fellini's all-time classic La Dolce Vita. Heading a glittering international cast is baritone Alan Opie in a commanding performance as the tortured jester, with Emma Mathews taking on the role of Gilda and Paul O'Neil as the lustful Duke. Conductor Giovanni Reggioli sympathetically captures the luscious yet fragile tones of Verdi's much-loved scrore, with it feast of sublime singing."
  • "A disfigured man befriends the children in a rural area, but the adults are mistrustful of the stranger."@en
  • "Il buffone di corte Rigoletto si vuole vendicare del duca di Mantova che ha rapito e disonorato sua figlia. Ma a morire, per un equivoco, è proprio quest'ultima. (Mereghetti)."@it
  • "A performance of the Verdi Opera about the deformed court jester named Rigoletto who works for the Duke of Mantua. Rigoletta's daughter, Gilda, falls in love with the Duke when he poses as a penniless student. When Gilda is abducted and taken to the Duke, Rigoletto vows revenge."
  • "A performance of the Verdi opera about the deformed court jester named Rigoletto who works for the licentious Duke of Mantua and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter, Gilda. Gilda falls in love with the Duke when he poses as a penniless student. Courtiers later abduct Gilda and take her to the Duke; Rigoletto vows revenge and hires an assassin to kill the Duke. Instead, Gilda sacrifices herself for her lover and dies in her father's arms."
  • "A young girl must find the beauty behind the hideous appearance of a rich man."@en
  • "Rigoletto, set in the early 1950s in Mafia-controlled Manhattan, tells the story of a barman whose attempts to shield his beautiful daughter from the attentions of the "Duke", a Mafia boss, lead to tragic consequences."@en
  • "Adaptation of the opera, set in New York's mob-controlled Little Italy in the 1950's."@en
  • "Rigoletto, whose job embroils him in the perverse world of the Duca, tries to shield his daughter Gilda from the nature of his work at all costs. His paternal love has such a suffocating effect on Gilda, however, that she has no option but to make a "fatal" escape."

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  • "Opéras filmés"
  • "Bildband"
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  • "DVD Videodiscs"@en
  • "Musique dramatique vocale (musique classique)"
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  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Musicale (Genere)"@it
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "vidéomusique"
  • "Filmed operas"
  • "Musical films"@en
  • "Filmed performances"
  • "musique dramatique vocale (musique classique)"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Documentals"

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  • ""Rigoletto""
  • "Rigoletto [an opera in three acts]"
  • "Rigoletto [opera in 3 Acts]"
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  • "Rigoletto"
  • "Rigoletto"@en
  • "Rigoletto (Film : 1977)"@it
  • "RIGOLETTO"
  • "Rigoletto an opera in 3 acts"@en
  • "Rigoletto a musical fantasy ringing of truth and filled with mystery and love"@en

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