Vienna State Opera – Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto

Rigoletto, the Duke of Mantua's court jester, mocks the fathers and husbands of the women his master seduces and abuses.

That is why the Count of Monterone curses him. Rigoletto's concern is for his daughter Gilda, whom he keeps hidden from the world. What he doesn't know is that the Duke has been seeing her secretly and anonymously for months and she has fallen in love with him. When he succeeds in seducing her, Rigoletto sets the contract killer Sparafucile on him. Gilda sacrifices herself out of love and dies in the Duke's place, and the curse is fulfilled.

2 Intermissions

Main Stage