Du 16 janvier au 24 janvier 2021

From 16 to 24 January 2021

Giuseppe Verdi
RIGOLETTO

Melodramma in three acts

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Le Roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo

Conductor | Stefano Ranzani

Master of the Chorus | Gea Garatti Ansini

Stage director | Giancarlo Cobelli

Set designer | Paolo Tommasi

Costume designer | Giusi Giustino

Cast

Duke of Mantua | René Barbera (16, 19, 22 and 24) / Giulio Pelligra (17, 21 and 23)

Rigoletto | Zeljko Lucic* (16, 19, 22 and 24) / Simone Del Savio* (17, 21 and 23)

Gilda | Aida Garifullina* (16, 19, 22 and 24) / Claudia Pavone (17, 21 and 23)

Sparafucile | Alessio Cacciamani*

Maddalena | Caterina Piva

Giovanna | Sofya Tumanian

Count Monterone | Gabriele Sagona

Marullo | Donato Di Gioia

Matteo Borsa | Enzo Peroni

Count Ceprano | Domenico Apollonio

Countess Ceprano | Fulvia Mastrobuono

*debut at Teatro di San Carlo

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo

Production of Teatro di San Carlo

January 2021

SERIE CREMISI

Saturday 16 January, h 19.00 - Series A - Fee III

Sunday 17 January, h 17.00 - Series F - Fee III

Tuesday 19 January, h 20.00 - Series C/D - Fee IV

Thursday 21 January, h 18.00 - Series B - Fee IV

Friday 22 January, h 20.00 - Out of Subscription - Fee IV

Saturday 23 January, h 19.00 - Out of Subscription - Fee III

Sunday 24 January, h 17.00 - Out of Subscription - Fee III

Language: Sung in Italian with Italian and English surtitles
Running time: about 2 hours and 50 minutes, including one interval

Adapted from Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse and performed at La Fenice in Venice in 1851, Rigoletto marks Verdi's triumphal period of known maturity that will produce, shortly after, the other two titles of his "popular trilogy". The opera we know today was heavily modified by Austrian censorship for its première and even after its huge success, Rigoletto toured many theaters with different titles and arrangements until reaching its definitive form in the operatic playbills around the world. The storyline of Rigoletto, the hunchbacked court buffoon, whose revenge against the wicked Duke of Mantua turns against his most precious gift, his beloved and violated daughter Gilda, enhances the opera's perfect theatrical machine, which utilizes the orchestra's wide gamut of textured emotions, descriptive of the great voices requested by the score. It is an opera about dualism and about opposites. It is dominated by exasperated contrasts such as night and day, shadow and light and it remains as such until its tragic epilogue, built on the volitional exchange of two people. An extreme gesture of purifying love that annihilates hate and violence.