Rigoletto - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Rigoletto

musical direction
Marco Armiliato
Staging
Pierre Audi
Stage and costumes
Christof Hetzer
light
Bernd Purkrabek
dramaturgy
Bettina Auer
Duke of Mantua
Francesco Demuro
Rigoletto
Ludovic Tézier
Gilda
Vera-Lotte Boecker
Sparafucile
Evgeny Solodovnikov
Maddalena
Monika Bohinec

"There is no right life in the wrong one," is one of Adorno's best-known sentences. He applies precisely to Verdi's »Rigoletto«: As a follower of the frivolous Duke, the court jester Rigoletto becomes the perpetrator and at the same time tries to shield his daughter Gilda from the world around her. But in vain: The washing ends in a catastrophe, Gilda is kidnapped, seduced and finally sacrifices her life for the unstable Duke. Verdi succeeded with his adaptation of Victor Hugo's scandalous play "The King Amuses himself", which was banned for half a century after a one-time performance in France, one of his most compelling music-theatrical drafts. The Duke's canzone "Oh, how so deceptive", which we are also familiar with outside of the operatic context and down to the depths of television advertising, achieved particular popularity. This catchy tune also provides a particularly impressive example of the mastery of the music dramatist Verdi: Because it is precisely this apparently serene moment that is primed by the darkest of colors. In the subsequent famous quartet of the fourth act, the Duke's reckless flirtation with the seductive Maddalena stands out from the pain of the betrayed Gilda and the hatred of her father. The American bass-baritone Quinn Kelsey will make his state opera debut as Rigoletto in one of his star roles, Nina Minasyan will also be singing for the first time as Gilda in the Haus am Ring.

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