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Program

Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto

Preludio

I, 1: "Della mia bella incognita borghese"

I, 1: "Questa o quella per me pari sono"

I, 1: "Partite?... Crudele!"

I, 1: "Gran nuova! Gran nuova!"

I, 1: "Ch'io gli parli"

I, 2: "Quel vecchio maledivami!" (Rigoletto, Sparafucile)

I, 2: "Pari siamo!" (Rigoletto)

I, 2: "Figlia! Mio padre!" (Rigoletto, Gilda, Giovanna)

I, 2: "Ah, veglia, o donna" (Rigoletto, Gilda)

I, 2: "Giovanna, ho dei rimorsi"

I, 2: "Gualtier Maldè!"

I, 2: "Riedo!... perché?"

I, 2: "Zitti, zitti, muoviamo a vendetta"

II: "Ella mi fu rapita!"

II: "Duca, Duca! – Ebben?"

II: "Povero Rigoletto!" (Marullo, Rigoletto, Coro, Borsa, Ceprano, Paggio)

II: "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" (Rigoletto)

II: "Mio padre!... Dio! mia Gilda!" (Gilda, Rigoletto, Borsa, Marullo, Ceprano, Coro)

II: "Tutte le feste al tempio"

II: "Poiché fosti invano da me maledetto... Si, vendetta, tremenda vendetta" (Monterone, Rigoletto, Gilda)

III: "E l'ami?"

III: "La donna è mobile" (Il duca di Mantova)

III: "Un dì, se ben rammentomi"

III: "Bella figura dell'amor"

III: "Venti scudi hai tu detto?"

III: "Della vendetta alfin giunge l'istante!"

III: "Chi mai, chi è qui in sua vece"

III: "V'ho ingannato... colpevole fui..."

Verdi's Rigoletto

Charles Roubaud (stage director), Alain Guingal (music director), Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France – Nadine Sierra (Gilda), Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), Celso Albelo (Il Ducca di Mantova)

Cast

Charles Roubaud — Stage director

Emmanuelle Favre — Scenography

Katia Duflot — Costumes

Jacques Rouveyrollis — Lighting

Vurgile Koering — Video

Jean-Charles Gil — Choreographer

Nadine Sierra — Gilda

Program notes

Every summer, a perfectly-preserved 1st century Roman theater plays host to the Chorégies d'Orange. One of the highlights of the 2017 Festival is a new production of Verdi's classical lyric opera, Rigoletto, led by Alain Guingal and stage director Charles Roubaud.

Inspired by Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse and based on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi's great operatic masterpiece Rigoletto was originally commissioned by Venice's La Fenice and then premiered to enormous success in 1851. Set in long-ago 16th century Mantova, the opera weaves a musical tale of a complex and compelling human tragedy, its timelessness attested to by the work's undying popularity. At the helm of this production are Alain Guingal and the internationally renowned stage director Charles Roubaud.

Rigoletto, jester to the playboy Duke of Mantua, wants to protect his daughter Gilda from the dangers of a courtly world he knows only too well. But the jester has been cursed for having mockingly disregarded Count Monterone's quest for justice after the Duke's rape of his own daughter. The curse soon begins its work: Rigoletto's daughter has fallen in love with the disguised Duke of Mantua himself, and when Rigoletto discovers the affair, his own quest for vengeance leads to the realization of the curse through his daughter's ultimate sacrifice...

English subtitles will only be available on replay.

Photo: © Philippe Gromelle Orange

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