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Rigoletto

Composer:
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Management:
Royal Opera
Cast:
Dimitri Platanias, Vittorio Grigolo, Francesco Meli (April 4), Lucy Crowe, Christine Rice, Matthew Rose, Elizabeth Sikora, Gianfranco Montresor, Pablo Bemsch, Susana Gaspar
Director:
David McVicar
Design:
Michael Vale
Lighting:
Paule Constable
Costumes:
Tanya McCallin
Choreography:
Leah Hausman

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The orgy that launches David McVicar's production of Rigoletto, new in 2001, may have lost some of its hedonistic edge but it at least raises more of an eyebrow than a titter. Michael Vale's enterprising set remains as striking as before - a huge, steeply inclined, corroding iron sheet conjures up a bleak vision of a Mantuan court that's as deviant as its libidinous Duke. The set rotates to reveal Rigoletto's ramshackle dwelling, a physical reminder that the acerbic, performing court jester has a flip side in the self-pitying widower who's obsessively protective of his daughter Gilda...

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Run sheet

Royal Opera House London
March 30 , April 2 , 4 , 7 , 11 , 14 , 17 , 21
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