Rigoletto

Sobre el espectáculo

In Verdi"s classic opera, Rigoletto, the epidemic that erodes the palaces also eats away at hearts and bodies. But the Machiavellian jester conceals a fatal flaw in the depths of his soul: a father's love.

"And Mantua is nothing more than a coffin on a raft washed up in the water pools, between the purulent mud and a blood red sky." Such is how André Suarès describes Mantua in his Voyage du condottiere. Under his hand, no word seems too strong to convey the decay of the city, "rotting and stinking of death". Is this the city's fateful spirit?

In the space of three perfectly economical and well‐defined acts, the marshes will once again rise to cover everything. Undoubtedly Verdi's greatest works were inspired by the implacable machination of misfortune, the irresistible force of destiny. How many curses, how many races to the abyss, how many characters beside themselves, trying for one moment to act and to exist but quickly swept away by a furious fatality? Rigoletto is perhaps the most perfect example of this, an almost abstract demonstration. Three characters barely deserving the name, more like archetypes: a thoughtless and immoral prince, his Machiavellian jester and an innocent young girl.

But tragedy will lay hold of the fatal flaw that Rigoletto conceals in the depths of his soul: a father's love.

Performed in Italian

Daniele Callegari    Conductor
Jérôme Savary    Stage director
Michel Lebois    Sets
Jacques Schmidt, Emmanuel Peduzzi    Costumes
Alain Poisson    Lighting
Alessandro Di Stefano    Chorus master

Piotr Beczala, Il Duca di Mantova
Zeljko Lucic, Rigoletto
Nino Machaidze, Gilda
Dimitry Ivashchenko, Sparafucile
Sylvie Brunet, Maddalena
Cornelia Oncioiu, Giovanna
Simone Del Savio, Il Conte di Monterone
Florian Sempey, Marullo
Vincent Delhoume, Matteo Borsa
Alexandre Duhamel, Il Conte di Ceprano
Ilona Krzywicka, La Contessa
Marianne Crebassa, Paggio della duchessa