![]() She tells her father about the Duke’s seduction. Gilda enters crying and Rigoletto demands the courtiers leave the room. As he realizes that Gilda is in the next room with the Duke, he tells the courtiers that they have not abducted his mistress, but his daughter. ![]() Rigoletto enters and tries to maintain his composure as he searches for signs of his daughter. ![]() Realizing they are referring to Gilda, he rushes off to her. Courtiers enter and relate how they kidnapped Rigoletto’s “mistress” and brought her to the palace. Upon returning to Rigoletto’s house, the Duke found that Gilda had been abducted. Realizing what has happened, Rigoletto recalls Monterone’s curse. The courtiers break into Rigoletto’s house and kidnap Gilda while he holds the ladder. On the pretext that they are all masked, Marullo covers Rigoletto’s eyes and ears with a blind fold. They tell him that they are planning to abduct Countess Ceprano, and Rigoletto offers to join them. Soon Rigoletto returns and encounters Marullo, Borsa, and other courtiers. As she admits her feelings for him, they are interrupted by a noise outside and he leaves. Suddenly she is surprised by the Duke, disguised as a poor student, who declares his love. She wonders if she should have told her father about the man who follows her to church. As they are speaking, the disguised Duke slips in and recognizes Rigoletto.Īfter Rigoletto leaves, Gilda confesses her feeling of guilt to her attendant Giovanna. When she asks Rigoletto about her family and mother, he insists that she has no family and laments that her mother, the only one to have ever loved him, died. He enters the house and is greeted by his daughter Gilda. Left alone, Rigoletto compares how he and Sparafucile use their respective weapons: Rigoletto, his wit, and Sparafucile, his sword. With Monterone’s curse weighing on his thoughts, Rigoletto encounters the assassin Sparafucile, who offers to rid him of any rivals. Scene 2 – The end of a dark and deserted street. ![]() After Rigoletto taunts him for trying to protest his daughter’s lost virtue, Monterone places a curse on the Duke and his jester. The festivities are interrupted by Count Monterone whose daughter’s honor has been taken by the Duke. When Rigoletto further humiliates Count Ceprano in front of the Duke, the courtiers plot their revenge on the jester. Marullo tells the courtiers that Rigoletto has a mistress. Count Ceprano watches the Duke pursue his wife and the hunchback jester Rigoletto mocks Ceprano. As they admire the ladies of the court, the Duke expresses his admiration for all women and his disdain for monogamy. She lives in a remote street and an unknown man enters her house each night. Leonora’s father is accidentally shot dead by her lover, Don Alvaro.At a festive ball the Duke of Mantua is telling Borsa about his latest flirtation, a young woman he sees each Sunday at church. La Forze Del Destino contains some of Verdi’s most brilliant choral writing and several beautiful and intimate arias. Listen to the best of Verdi on Apple Music and Spotify. Although he was a profoundly serious man, his final opera, Falstaff, was a brilliant comedy. Father and daughter relationships are a recurrent theme in his work, as are the subjects of injustice, oppression, and religious hypocrisy. “The Drinking Song” from La Traviata, “The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” from Nabucco, and “La Donna è Mobile” from Rigoletto are as well known in popular culture as they are in the world of opera. More than 100 years after his death, the works of Verdi form a major part of today’s opera repertoire. He was the most eminent composer in Italian opera after the eras of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. Giuseppe Verdi was the greatest of all Italian opera composers.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |