The lecherous noblemen of the Mantuan court must be entertained, and a deformed jester spares no one his jeers to ensure that they are. And yet he prays that the scathing mockery he heaps on the suffering of others will not return to haunt him. All he must do is seal his work off from his family life. But when his daughter, following her own heart, leaves the safety of those walls, Rigoletto's secret double life leads her to her doom.The popularity of Verdi's work is no accident: with Shakespearean profundity and thrilling music, it depicts a tragedy of acceptance and schadenfreude, love and self-sacrifice.
Authors
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Francesco Maria Piave
Creative team
Director: Mária Harangi
Director: Miklós Szinetár
Set designer: Attila Csikós
Costume designer: Rita Velich
Choreographer: Jenő Lőcsei
Anna Varsányi's rough translation revised for use as subtitles by: Eszter Orbán
English translation by: Arthur Roger Crane
Chorus director: Gábor Csiki
Cast
Conductor: Péter Halász
Duke of Mantua - Andrei Danilov, Gergely Boncsér
Rigoletto - Michele Kalmandy, Alexandru Agache
Gilda - Zita Szemere, Laura Topolánszky
Sparafucile - István Rácz
Maddalena - Viktória Mester
Count Monterone - László Szvétek
Marullo - N. N.
Borsa - Attila Erdős
Count Ceprano - Dávid Dani
Countess Ceprano - Anija Lombard (opera studio)
Giovanna - Lusine Sahakyan
Page - N. N.
Court usher - Zoltán Bátki Fazekas
