Opera

Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Opera in three acts
Sung in Italian, with German surtitles
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play "Le Roi s’amuse" by Victor Hugo
Premiere: 1851 in Venice

Trailer: Ullrich Bohn
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster

Only the Duke's jester is allowed to tell the ruler the truth to his face - and he does so with sharp-tongued gusto, at everyone else's expense. At the same time he is presumptuous enough to believe that he can keep his own little world free from all evils, protecting his daughter Gilda at all costs. Nevertheless, she ends up losing her heart to the vicious Duke and, when Rigoletto vows to take revenge, she sacrifices herself for the lecherous man. In a world where love is synonymous with manipulation, people are crushed. With the genial "La Donna è mobile" (Woman is fickle) Verdi finally secured his world fame.

Cast

Conductor Will Humburg
Director Uwe Eric Laufenberg
Revival Directo Silvia Gatto
Stage Designer Gisbert Jäkel
Costume Designer Andrea Schmidt-Futterer
Lighting Designer Andreas Frank
Chorus Master Albert Horne
Dramaturgy Katja Leclerc
Duke of Mantua Ioan Hotea, Piero Pretti
Rigoletto Aluda Todua, Željko Lučić
Gilda Anastasiya Taratorkina
Sparafucile Young Doo Park
Maddalena Fleuranne Brockway, Silvia Hauer
Count Monterone Mikhail Biryukov
Marullo Christopher Bolduc
Matteo Borsa Erik Biegel
Count Ceprano Darcy Carroll
Countess Ceprano Eunshil Jung
Chor & Chorsolist:innen des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden, Statisterie des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden, Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden