Name: Rigoletto
Start: 2019-10-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-12-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Mainfranken Theater

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Roberto Ortiz

The Duke of Mantua

Baritone

Federico Longhi

Rigoletto

Kosma Ranuer Kroon

Soprano

Akiho Tsujii

Gilda

Bass

Ihor Tsarkov

Sparafucile

Contralto

Katharina von Bülow

Maddalena

Anna Werle

Mezzo-soprano

Barbara Schöller

Giovanna

The Count of Monterone

Daniel Fiolka

Marullo

David Hieronimi

Mathew Habib

Matteo Borsa

Taiyu Uchiyama

The Count of Ceprano

Scherhezada Cruz

The Countess of Ceprano

Herbert Brand

A court usher

Natalia Boldyrieva

A page

Conductor

Enrico Calesso

André Callegaro

Gabor Hontvári

Stage director

Markus Trabusch

Set designer

Susanne Hiller

Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

Others

Opernchor des Mainfranken Theaters Würzburg

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Würzburg

Extrachor des Mainfranken Theaters Würzburg

Italian

Würzburg

Germany

Mainfranken Theater

Rigoletto Verdi

Public

German

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Cynical Rigoletto, a disfigured outsider, is ruthless in his ridicule of the victims of the love-lust of his master, the Duke. The curse of the Count of Monterone, whose daughter fell victim to the Duke’s courtship, hits him with full force. When his own daughter Gilda falls in love with the Duke, Rigoletto completely loses the ground under his feet. Together with a hit-man named Sparafucile, he wants to put a stop to the Duke - with tragic consequences!

Alongside "Trovatore" and "Traviata" (both 1853), "Rigoletto" belongs to the so-called "Trilogia popolare", which ushers in the maturation of Verdi's great musical dramas. After the early Shakespeare opera "Macbeth", "Rigoletto" in particular represents the "striven-for solution to Verdi's operatic problem: the gaining of a new artificial language based on tradition, in a concise as well as economical manner" (Ulrich Schreiber). The material is based on Victor Hugo's play "Le roi s'amuse" (1832), which praised Verdi as "perhaps the greatest drama of modern times". "Triboulet", as Rigoletto’s companion in the play says, "is an invention worthy of Shakespeare!"

As a disfigured outsider, Rigoletto cynically and ruthlessly mocks the victims of the amorous lust of his employer, the duke. The curse of the Count of Monterone, whose daughter fell victim to the ducal courtship, hits him with full force. When his own daughter Gilda falls in love with the duke, Rigoletto loses the ground under his feet completely. With the help of the assassin Sparafucile, he wants to finally put a stop to the Duke's handiwork - with tragic consequences!

Together with the "Trovatore" and the "Traviata" (both 1853), "Rigoletto" belongs to the so-called "Trilogia popolare", which marks the beginning of the maturing period of Verdi's great music dramas. After the early Shakespearean opera "Macbeth", it is the "Rigoletto" in particular that "achieves the desired solution to Verdi's operatic problem: the acquisition of a new artistic language based on tradition, in a way that is as concise as it is economical" (Ulrich Schreiber) . The material is based on Victor Hugo's play "Le roi s'amuse" (1832), which Verdi praised as "perhaps the greatest drama of modern times". "Triboulet", it is said of the counterpart to the character Rigoletto in the play, "is worthy of an invention by Shakespeare!"


After his acclaimed staging of Rossini's "Barber of Seville" in the 2017/18 season, artistic director Markus Trabusch has returned to directing the opera. With "Rigoletto" he continues his preoccupation with the work of Verdi, which he began in 2011 with "La traviata" in Augsburg.

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