As the master frivolously dishonours his noblemen’s wives and daughters one after the other, the joker mocks the wronged families with piercing and unkind humour.Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” is considered to be one of his greatest masterpieces and was written during his middle to late creative period when it premiered in the Teatro La Fenice, located in Venice, Italy on March 11, 1851. Hence, the plot focuses on the Duke of Mantua, a womanising brute, and his court jester Rigoletto. Verdi and Piave had to make numerous adjustments to the story in order to get past the censors who naturally feared a piece of scalding anti-royalist political critique at an unruly time in Italian history. The libretto is courtesy of the great Italian author Francesco Maria Piave who adapted the controversial play Le Roi s'amuse by French writer Victor Hugo.
Rigoletto was premiered on 11 March 1851 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and this season it is coming back home for a well-deserved new round of applause.
The story of the acerbic hunchback jester and his morally degraded master is as perennial as time itself, and generations of opera-goers can find parallels between the stark political critique on stage and the political and social inequalities they witness in their own times.
The absolute corruption of absolute power and the unavoidable guilt by association form the basis of Rigoletto, one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most soul-shaking operas.
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