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Release Date:
January 29, 2022
Original Title:
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
Alternate Titles:
Rigoletto
Verdi: Rigoletto
Genres:
Music
Production Companies:
The Metropolitan Opera
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 142
One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions, commanding American baritone Quinn Kelsey gives a searing portrayal of the title character, a deformed court jester determined to protect the virtue of his daughter, Gilda, sung by radiant soprano Rosa Feola. His debauched employer, the Duke of Mantua, is tenor Piotr Beczała, with dynamic young maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium to lead a cast that also features bass Andrea Mastroni as the assassin Sparafucile and mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena.
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Conductor:
Daniele Rustioni
Costume Designer:
Catherine Zuber
Creative Producer:
Matt Dobkin
Merrin Lazyan
Director:
Gary Halvorson
Lighting Design:
Donald Holder
Music Producer:
David Frost
Music Score Producer:
Giuseppe Verdi
Presenter:
Isabel Leonard
Producer:
Louisa Briccetti
Victoria Warivonchik
Production Design:
Bartlett Sher
Set Designer:
Michael Yeargan
Supervising Producer:
Mia Bongiovanni
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