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Rigoletto - Verdi

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Verdi Rigoletto

From 01 December TO 24 December 2024
Opéra Bastille - Paris
Program

Verdi : Rigoletto

2:45 with 1 intermission
Cast
  • Conductor
    Domingo Hindoyan
  • Director
    Claus Guth
  • Performers
    Rigoletto: Roman Burdenko
    Gilda: Rosa Feola
    Il Duca di Mantova: Liparit Avetisyan
    Sparafucile: Goderdzi Janelidze
    Maddalena: Aude Extrémo
Details on the Performance

“It’s a magnificent, grandiose subject that features one of the most extraordinary characters ever created for the theater and the world at large.” This is how Verdi requested Francesco Maria Piave to write him a libretto inspired by Victor Hugo's Le Roi s’amuse. Rigoletto, a paradoxical character, is both a deformed jester serving the Duke of Mantua in his seduction schemes and the embodiment of fatherly love towards his daughter Gilda.

With its rich contrasts, the theme of the curse, and its unforgettable arias, the opera, premiered at La Fenice in Venice in 1851, became Verdi’s first great popular success, alongside Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Claus Guth's staging is conceived as a long flashback, in which Rigoletto, filled with remorse, relives the death of his daughter to which he unintentionally contributed.

Source: Opéra national de Paris

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  • Venue Info
  • Seating Plan
  • Synopsis

Opéra Bastille - Paris LocationPl. de la Bastille - 75012 Paris France

  • Venue's Capacity: 2745

From its beginnings under Louis XIV to the present day, including the construction of the Palais Gamier under Napoleon III, the history of the Paris Opera has been marked by the wishes and whims of the French government. The decision to build a new opera on the Place de la Bastille is no exception, made by Frangois Mitterrand less than a year after being elected President. A competition was organized, and of the 750 projects presented, the one designed by the Uruguayan-Canadian architect Carl Ott won. The new building, whose large ground surface ostentatiously marks the site where the French Revolution broke out, was inaugurated during the bicentennial celebrations of that same Revolution in 1989.

 

From the Place de la Bastille, the building's glass facade, with its "aleatory" lighting designed by Yann Kersale, suggests the sober modernism of its interior, even more so because the interior uses the same construction materials as the exterior, symbolizing a desire to open out to the public. Once inside, one can discover the warmth of the light wood that adorns the large 2703-seat hall with its proscenium stage. But the building barely stops here, for one must imagine the enormous backstage that takes up 55 per cent of the edifice's total volume, the six underground stories of technical premises, the workshops that make and stock the mobile sets as well as the costumes, not to mention the Gounod Hall, that has a stage identical to the main one, used for rehearsals. Designed around a symmetrical axis that is symbolized by the sculpted tuning forks that decorate the public premises, the Bastille Opera is a formidable computerized machine for staging opera productions, employing the population of a veritable city-within-a-city.

 

The conductor Myung-Whun Chung faced the difficult task of starting up this machine. The audience discovered productions staged by Bob Wilson or Peter Sellars, which it did not always unanimously applaud. But today, in full possession of its impressive technical means, permitting the rotation of different productions, the Bastille Opera proposes the most diverse performances. Currently managed by Hugues Gall and his music director James Conlon, revivals, premieres and major productions now share the season's billing, at a pace that leaves the audience little respite.

Since 2014, Stépahne Lissner is the Director of the Paris Opera.

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Synopsis

Rigoletto

“La donna è mobile”, “Caro nome”…these are only few of the successful arias contained in this Verdi’s Opera where the identity of the Villain is blurred and whose audience will most certainly cries a river.

When the Italian composer decided to adapt Victor Hugo’s “Le Roi s’amuse”, the play, which harshly and straightforwardly criticises the Royal family, had been already censored. As a consequence, this passionate opera went through many ups and downs before making it to the Venice’s Fenice Theatre, where it premiered on the 11 March 1851. Verdi and librettist Francesco Maria Piave had to change a number of different elements such as the setting, titles and names in order to be allowed to stage it.

The action takes place in the opulent palaces of sixteenth century Mantua. The opera revolves around a licentious Duke's efforts to seduce the beautiful daughter of the hunchback Rigoletto.

Opéra Bastille (c) Christian Leiber

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