A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A vengeful but misguided court jester strives to save his daughter from a duke’s licentious clutches, but can't part with the feeling that a curse looms over all of his actions. In Rigoletto, the composer introduces several of his most iconic arias and duets—as well as an 11th-hour quartet that counts among the finest moments in opera.
Michael Mayer’s acclaimed production, first seen in the 2012–13 season, sets the action of Verdi’s masterpiece in 1960 Las Vegas—a neon-lit world ruled by money and ruthless, powerful men.
The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is truly visionary and other worldly and gives a convincing insight into what staged operas must have looked like during the Baroque and Rococo period.
I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact that it has 5 acts, therefore they conclude that it must be incredibly long.
Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairos new opera house, Verdis Egyptian epic Aida is here seen in a spectacular new staging in the Teatro Regio Torino by the Oscar-winning American film director William Friedkin, creator of such famous movies as The Exorcist and The French Connection.
Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead.
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and interpreters of Baroque repertoire, not only with Le Concert d’Astrée, the ensemble she founded in 2000, but with several of the world’s greatest orchestras.
Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896.
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RIGOLETTO (staged by / regia: Stephen Barlow) - short trailer
by / de: Opera Naţională Bucureşti Video credits / Credite videoclip: Director / Regizor: George Dăscălescu & Alexandru Iureș : George Dăscălescu ...
Rigoletto LIVE from the Royal Opera House - Cinema Trailer
Rigoletto court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua is cursed by the father of one of the Duke's victims for his irreverent laughter. When the Duke seduces ...
"La Donna e Mobile" - Rigoletto (1977)
Act 3 - Placido Domingo as the Duke in the 1977 Met production of Verdi's Rigoletto. In this aria the Duke expresses his disdain for women. Conductor: James ...
Trailer Rigoletto SIP
Het toneelstuk Le roi s'amuse (1832) van Victor Hugo was de basis voor Verdi's Rigoletto de eerste opera uit zijn zogenaamde trilogie (later maakte hij die af ...
Rigoletto
"Returning hurt for hurt never helped anybody" young Bonnie said. But what is she to make of the hurtful Ribaldi who has moved into Castle Gate and ...
Rigoletto Rehearsal Sneak Peek 1
Sex. Power. Corruption. Who could have known that since the first performance of Verdi's Rigoletto in 1851 that Italian politics would have changed so little?
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