Rigoletto, Opera Bastille, Paris: 23 October-24 November 2021

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Dan Ettinger and Giacomo Sagripanti conduct two alternating casts, with Ludovic Tézier in the title role and Joseph Calleja as the Duke of Mantua, in Claus Guth's staging, where Rigoletto relives his life in a poetically contemporary setting. Book your tickets before the public through Divento!

  • With Rigoletto, inspired by Victor Hugo, Verdi strikes a skilful balance between levity and gravity, and signs one of the most beautiful pages of the operatic repertoire, offering a succession of arias, duets, ensembles and choruses engraved in the collective memory. Dan Ettinger and Giacomo Sagripanti conduct two alternating casts, with Ludovic Tézier in the title role and Joseph Calleja as the Duke of Mantua, in Claus Guth's staging, where Rigoletto relives his life in a poetically contemporary setting.

    Rigoletto

    Melodramma in three acts (1851)

    After Victor Hugo, Le Roi s'amuse

    • Music:

      Giuseppe Verdi - (1813-1901)

    • Libretto:

      Francesco Maria Piave

    • Conductor:

      Giacomo Sagripanti

    • Director:

      Claus Guth

    • Set design:

      Christian Schmidt

    • Costume design:

      Christian Schmidt

    • Choreography:

      Teresa Rotemberg

    • Lighting design:

      Olaf Winter

    • Dramaturgy:

      Konrad Kuhn

    • Video:

      Andi A. Müller

    • Chorus master:

      Ching-Lien Wu

  • Cast


    • Rigoletto:

      • Ludovic Tézier

        23,26,29 Oct.,1,4,7,10,13,15 Nov.

      • Željko Lučić

        5,8,11,14,17,20,24 Nov.

    • Gilda:

      • Nadine Sierra

        23,26,29 Oct.,1,4,7,10,13,15 Nov.

      • Irina Lungu

        5,8,11,14,17,20,24 Nov.

    • Il Duca di Mantova:

      • Dmitry Korchak

        23,26,29 Oct.,1,4,7,10,13,15 Nov.

      • Joseph Calleja

        5,8,11,14,17,20,24 Nov.

    • Sparafucile:

      • Goderdzi Janelidze

    • Maddalena:

      • Justina Gringyté

    • Il Conte di Monterone:

      • Bogdan Talos

    • Giovanna:

      • Cassandre Berthon

    • Marullo:

      • Jean-Luc Ballestra

    • Matteo Borsa:

      • Maciej Kwaśnikowski

    • La Contessa:

      • Izabella Wnorowska-Pluchart

    • Paggio della Duchessa:

      • Lise Nougier

        23,26,29 Oct.,1,4,7,10,13,15 Nov.

      • Marine Chagnon

        5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 24 Nov.

    • Usciere di Corte:

      • Pierpaolo Palloni

    • Double de Rigoletto:

      • Henri Bernard Guizirian

    • Il Conte di Ceprano:

      • Florent Mbia

Charles Duprat / Opéra national de Paris Rigoletto 16-17 © Charles Duprat - OnP
Charles Duprat / Opéra national de Paris Rigoletto 16-17 © Charles Duprat - OnP

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