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	Synopsis: Rigoletto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rigoletto has paid Sparafucile to kill the Duke and to deliver his body in a sack so that he may himself throw it into the Mincio.
		Rigoletto brings Gilda with him to spy on the inn, hoping to reinforce the notion that the Duke is not a man of honour in affairs of the heart.
		Rigoletto is just about to throw the sack in the river when he hears the Duke still singing in the inn.
	opera.stanford.edu /opera/Verdi/Rigoletto/synopsis.html (496 words)

	Synopsis of Rigoletto - the Metropolitan Opera
		Rigoletto, hearing her cry for help, tears off his blindfold and rushes into the house, discovering only her scarf.
		Rigoletto sends his daughter off to disguise herself as a boy for her escape to Verona, then pays Sparafucile to murder the Duke.
		Rigoletto comes back to claim the body and gloats over the sack Sparafucile gives him, only to hear his supposed victim singing in the distance.
	www.metoperafamily.org /metopera/discover/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=134 (494 words)

	Rigoletto - Opera
		These wretches are, at the beginning of the opera, counting among their latest successes the seduction of the wife of Count Ceprano and the daughter of Count Monterone.
		When Rigoletto discovers that he has been duped, he is so enraged that he secures the services of Sparafucile, a hired assassin, and plans to have the Duke killed.
		" Rigoletto " is esteemed to be one of the finest of the Verdi operas and this despite its horrible and improbable plot and its array of despicable characters.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_530.shtml (552 words)

	MPR Music - Rigoletto Giuseppi Verdi
		Rigoletto is so relieved that he agrees to help them in their plans.
		Rigoletto and Gilda are hiding, waiting in the darkness on the edge of town.
		Rigoletto instructs his daughter to go to Verona (disguised as a man for safety), where he will join her the next day.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/0311_rigoletto (871 words)

	Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi
		His court Jester, a hunchback named Rigoletto, is happy to cheer him on, and to leer as courtier Monterone’s own daughter becomes the Duke’s latest conquest.
		By various turns of fate, some contrived, some tragically inevitable, it is Rigoletto who finally stands over the body of his own beautiful daughter as the Duke sings the opera’s signature aria "la donna e mobile" off stage.
		He is not a hunchback, but an ordinary man in an ill-fitting suit, which he removes to don the costume of the Jester, his weariness and vulnerability emphasized as he stands there in his underwear, portly belly hanging over workaday boxer shorts.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Rigoletto.htm (698 words)

	Notes on Verdi's RIGOLETTO at Boston's Cuitler Majestic Theatre
		Before the opera begins, the Duke of Mantua, an absolute ruler who seduces women as he pleases, and his hunchback court jester, Rigoletto, his accomplice and henchman, have abducted Count Monterone's daughter and the unfortunate woman has committed suicide.
		The character of Rigoletto stands at the center of the opera in all his complexity and inconsistency.
		In the opera, the eloquence of song and the intensity of the orchestral sound are essential in projecting the broken hearted father's suffering and the complex depiction of his mental conflict.
	www.maj.org /P2007/icam_rigo_notes.html (658 words)

	Cincinnati Opera :: Rigoletto :: Synopsis
		Rigoletto is the court jester of the Duke of Mantua.
		Rigoletto has hidden his daughter, Gilda, from the court, and she knows nothing about his life as a jester.
		Rigoletto mocks another father, Count Monterone, when Monterone's daughter is seduced and jibes at Count Ceprano when the Count's wife catches the Duke's eye.
	www.cincinnatiopera.com /content.jsp?articleId=231 (361 words)

	Classical Net - Verdi - Rigoletto
		Rigoletto is an opera filled with curses and irony.
		At a Ball in the Ducal Palace, Rigoletto taunts Count Ceprano whose wife is the target of the Duke's wandering eye.
		Rigoletto plots his revenge through use of the assassin Sparafucile and his sister Maddalena.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/verdi/rigoletto/index.html (184 words)

	Rigoletto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the end the parties were able to agree that the action of the opera had to be moved from the royal court of France to a duchy of France or Italy, as well as a renaming of the characters.
		Her father, the original Rigoletto, was really uncomfortable with the false hump he had to wear; he was so uncertain that, even though he was quite an experienced singer, he had a panic attack when it was his turn to enter the stage.
		Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester of the Duke, mocks the husbands of the ladies to whom the Duke is paying attention, and advises the Duke to get rid of them by prison or death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rigoletto_(opera) (1909 words)

	Seattle Opera
		At Seattle Opera we have never changed the period of an opera for any work that is set in time by its libretto.
		Rigoletto is one opera, however, that could happen at any point in history.
		Giving a new twist to a very familiar opera and illustrating the fact that all the emotions in Rigoletto—the lack of caring for others in the debonair Duke, the possessiveness and cruel tongue of Rigoletto, the innocence and infatuation of the teenage Gilda—are timeless and suit the twentieth century.
	www.seattleopera.org /operas/2004-2005/rigoletto/notes.aspx (319 words)

	HeraldNet: Seattle Opera sets 'Rigoletto' in the Fascist era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seattle Opera's stylish new production of "Rigoletto" that opened Saturday night at McCaw Hall is a visual and musical feast, with stellar singing and acting and sleek new costumes and staging that move this traditionally Renaissance-era story into the 20th century - the Fascist Italy of Mussolini to be exact.
		Rigoletto is a servant in the court of the Duke of Mantua.
		Rigoletto, vowing vengeance, hires an assassin to kill the Duke, but in a tragic mix-up, it is Gilda's body Rigoletto finds in the assassin's sack.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/04/10/20/ae_rigoletto001.cfm (728 words)

	Opera Talent
		Rigoletto has never told his daughter Gilda his name, and he says he has no family or friends since her mother died.
		Rigoletto clearly cannot persuade Gilda that the Duke is a rogue, and so has to take her to the tavern to prove it.
		On hearing the Duke’s voice, Rigoletto discovers the dying Gilda; he can’t believe his eyes: “It’s a dream!” When he realises what she has done and why, he sees how: “She was caught in the execution of my just vengeance!” He begs her, “Do not leave me alone!”Let me die with you” but in vain.
	www.operatalent.com /Safe/Roles/Rigoletto27549381.asp?rolea=211 (686 words)

	rigoletto, giuseppe verdi, la donna e mobile, caro nome, la vendetta, opera plots, argumentos de operas, music, musica, ...
		Rigoletto is the bitter, hunchbacked court jester whose treasured daughter, Gilda, has caught the eye of the womanizing Duke of Mantua.
		Determined to show his daughter the Duke's true nature, Rigoletto takes her to the house of the assassin Sparafucile, whose sister Maddalena offers the duke her gypsy favors.
		Knowing she will be murdered, Gilda appears in disguise, is stabbed, stuffed in a sack and delivered to Rigoletto in place of the duke's body.
	www.ompersonal.net /music/rigoletto.htm (810 words)

	Learn - Rigoletto - Arizona Opera
		Rigoletto is most concerned with Gilda's safety and questions her to make sure she always locks the door and never goes out alone.
		Rigoletto tells the courtiers that Gilda is his daughter and demands to see her.
		Rigoletto promises to show her the Duke's true nature by peering into the inn through a crack in the wall.
	www.azopera.com /learn.php?subcat=operasynopsis&subpage=Rigoletto (1000 words)

	Opera online with free music and video downloads, posters and books about composers. The Ring of The Nibelung by ...
		Opera Online is dedicated to the immortal masterpiece "The Ring of the Nibelung" by Richard Wagner who gave new life to the german myth of the Nibelungs.
		Wagner and his Ring of the Nibelung, Verdi with Traviata, Aida and Rigoletto, Mozart with Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, Puccini with Tosca, Madama Butterfly and La Boheme, Rossini, Bizet with Carmen, Salieri with Falstaff, Haendel with Xerxes, Strauss with Fledermaus...
		Das Rheingold is the first of the four Ring operas, it sets the scene with the theft of the Rhine gold, first by Alberich and then Wotan on behalf of the giants on a train of greed that will inexorably lead to the demise of the gods.
	ring.mithec.com (602 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Theatre - Rigoletto Review - Opera as still life
		It's hard to imagine that any CD could be as thrilling as the live voice of Laura Claycomb, though, as she sails into the demanding arias Verdi created for the tragic character of the love-besotted Gilda, the ill-fated daughter of the title character.
		Rigoletto himself, performed here by Alan Opie, is the hunch-backed jester to the court of the hedonistic Duke of Mantua (sung with considerable swaggering charm and polish by Giuseppe Gipali).
		Then, after Rigoletto's enemies at court kidnap Gilda in the mistaken assumption that she is the jester's mistress, the Duke steps in to sample more deeply of Gilda's charms.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/R/Rigoletto/2004/04/10/742414.html (480 words)

	Amazon.ca: Rigoletto Comp: Music: Giuseppe Verdi,La Scala Theater Orchestra,Maria Callas,Plinio Clabassi,Renato ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Neither singer has one of the century's prettiest voices; both have dramatic presence, impact and subtlety--based as much on their control of verbal nuance as on musicianship--that make their characters three-dimensional, the story meaningful and the emotions real, varied and intense.
		His role is bigger and more complex than hers is. He is almost constantly onstage and his music runs the whole gamut from fatherly tenderness to regret at a life gone wrong to explosive rage.
		I wonder why the previous reviewer failed to find any "flaws" in Gobbi's singing as Rigoletto, but of course his hateful crusade is against Callas, so he doesn't bother inventing flaws for her co-stars.
	www.amazon.ca /Rigoletto-Comp-Giuseppe-Verdi/dp/B000002RY6 (1252 words)

	Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto - State Opera Prague - www.opera.cz
		Rigoletto is a tragedy of social injustice and inequality, which is evident both in the title character of the jester as well as in the explicit portrayal of the wanton lifestyle of the nobility.
		The masterful opera works of G. Verdi, most characteristic by their drama and melody, still remain part of the core repertory of all of the world’s opera stages.
		The Prague State Opera in cooperation with the Slovart publishing house publishes a representative book tracking the history of this significant cultural institution since its opening in 1888 till the end of the 2002/2003 season.
	www.opera.cz /en/repertoar/rigoletto.html (338 words)

	Rigoletto @ Royal Opera House, London : opera review
		Paolo Gavanelli as Rigoletto, Anna Netrebko as Gilda
		For instance, the opening prelude represents the grief of the bereaved father that we never experience at the opera's close; this is offset against the opening scene of banal party music.
		The opera was made all the more convincing by Netrebko's strong-willed version of Gilda, who is too often portrayed as a wet cabbage leaf.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/rigoletto-2.htm (741 words)

	Upcoming.org: Amato Opera: Rigoletto at Amato Opera Theater (Saturday, November 4, 2006)
		Rigoletto demands his daughter back and discovers that it is the Duke who has shamed her.
		Rigoletto vows revenge on the Duke and hires a hit man. Gilda discovers what is going on and hears the hit man say he will spare the Duke and kill the next man he sees.
		Gilda disguises herself as a man and is killed by the hit man. Rigoletto takes the body of what he believes is the Duke and before he can discard it, he realizes it is the body of his beloved daughter, who dies in his arms.
	upcoming.org /event/117001 (265 words)

	opera-gems
		Opera Gems is an enthusiastic activity by non-professionals for interest to opera devotees and people who appreciate opera.
		The orchestra and chorus of the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini is conducted by Massimilano Steffanelli.
		Opera is drama or comedy set to music with soloists, chorus on the stage and orchestra in the pit.
	www.opera-gems.com (1931 words)

	Rigoletto @ Opera Holland Park, London: opera review
		Opera Holland Park attracts a certain type of audience and after too many bottles of burgundy from their Marks and Sparks picnic hampers, this stewed group of middle class old pensioners and single middle-aged men obviously have a warped sense of good opera.
		This opera may address class struggles and gender politics but at it its heart, the story is one of love: often misguided and confused but always constant and true.
		Dressed and standing like a china doll, it is clear that Rigoletto has protected his innocent flower, but as Gilda tries to console her father, the act remains unchanged and there appears to be no compassion or affection between the two.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/ohp-rigoletto_0706.htm (874 words)

	Metropolitan Opera Broadcast: Rigoletto > Opera News > The Met Opera Guild
		The 2005—06 Metropolitan Opera broadcast season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home builder™, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Foundation.
		Alone with Rigoletto, Gilda tells of falling in love at church, of the Duke’s courtship, of her abduction (“Tutte le feste al tempio”).
		Venice cheered the opera at its premiere, on March 11, 1851, and especially the Duke’s cavatina, “La donna è mobile.” Verdi, realizing how singable it was, had not shown it even to the tenor until two days before the performance, so that it would not be overheard and sung by the gondoliers before the premiere.
	www.metoperafamily.org /operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=1445&issueID=55&archive=true (1358 words)

	Rigoletto - Verdi, vita e opere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rigoletto, opera in tre atti su libretto di Francesco Maria Piave tratto da Le roi s'amuse di Victor Hugo ebbe la prima rappresentazione al Teatro La Fenice di Venezia l'11 marzo 1851.
		Rigoletto, uomo deforme e maligno, è buffone alla Corte del Duca di Mantova: ha una figlia, Gilda, che egli tiene chiusa in casa, completamente all'oscuro di quanto egli fa.
		Quando Rigoletto scopre il terribile intrigo, libera la figlia e medita la vendetta: pagherà un sicario, Sparafucile, che, con la complicità della sorella Maddalena, dovrà attirare nella propria taverna il Duca, ucciderlo nel sonno e rinchiuderne il cadavere in un sacco che lo stesso Rigoletto, nel cuor della notte, si incaricherà di gettare nel fiume.
	www.geocities.com /angela_violett/rigoletto.htm (722 words)

	OPERA REVIEW: A Sure Thing By Michael Zwiebach (San Francisco Opera, Rigoletto, September 30, 2006)
		That’s why opera fans were abuzz about the revival at the War Memorial Opera House, and that’s why David Gockley has scheduled it to be the next outdoor live simulcast (on Oct. 6).
		She made clear the contradiction in her character — Gilda loves Rigoletto, but she needs to escape his control.
		He partnered his singers perfectly and gave everything its proper weight — he was master of the score’s details, and the orchestra played superbly for him.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/rigoletto_10_3_06.php (852 words)

	Amazon.com: Verdi: Rigoletto / Cappuccilli, Cotrubas, Domingo, Ghiaurov, Obraztsova, Moll; Giulini: Music: Giuseppe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The opera opens at the Duke's palace where he is holding a festive ball and bragging to one of his buddies about his latest amorous conquest.
		Rigoletto enters and believes that they are kidnapping Countess Ceprano and even holds the ladder for them.
		Rigoletto appears and is looking for his daughter, when he learns she is with the Duke he tries to break in and demands her, turned away, he begs.
	www.amazon.com /Verdi-Rigoletto-Cappuccilli-Cotrubas-Obraztsova/dp/B00000J9HF (2687 words)

	Hawaii Opera Theatre - Rigoletto
		Verdi's first great masterpiece, Rigoletto, tells the sad tragedy of a hunchback jester, bitterly existing in the shadow of a lecherous Duke.
		Rigoletto, duped into aiding the abduction of his own daughter, turns his piercing-tongue into deadly words, unwittingly destroying all he loves.
		Rigoletto closes on February 14, 2006 and tickets are no longer available online.
	hawaiiopera.org /Rigoletto.aspx (134 words)

	RIGOLETTO by Verdi at Boston's Cuitler Majestic Theatre
		RIGOLETTO by Verdi at Boston's Cuitler Majestic Theatre
		Careless flirtations by the womanizing Duke of Mantua and the actions of his vengeful court jester Rigoletto play out against a backdrop of seduction, betrayal, curses and vendettas, ending in the tragic death of Rigoletto's innocent daughter Gilda at the hands of a paid assassin.
		And the extraordinary soprano Larissa Yudina, who was praised by Boston critics for her 2006 Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor and Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, returns as Gilda.
	www.maj.org /P2007/icam_rigo.html (149 words)

	Welcome to Madison Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The embittered jester Rigoletto strives to keep the existence of his beloved daughter Gilda a secret, but the philandering Duke seduces her and tragedy follows...
		Starring renowned baritone Guido LeBron as Rigoletto, Madison favorite Megan Monaghan as Gilda, and one of opera's newest sensations, Stephen Costello as the Duke.
		Madison Opera's Artistic Director John DeMain leads the outstanding cast, Madison Opera Chorus and Madison Symphony Orchestra.
	madisonopera.org /performances/rigoletto.html (221 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 07/20/2005 : Cincinnati Opera's Rigoletto
		Yes, it’s a half-century older, 1851 vs. 1896, but Rigoletto’s plot is not a lot sillier than that of Bohème: A hunchbacked court jester mocks his ducal, libertine master and the duke’s circle of arrogant airhead friends.
		Even when Rigoletto’s arms were wrapped around his beloved daughter, Gilda, in the score’s three huge, doomed duets, Polish baritone Andrzej Dobber (making his Cincinnati Opera debut) and Russian soprano Dina Kuznetsova directed their emotion outward, to and for the audience, not to or for each other.
		When the taunted, threatened Rigoletto turned on the crowd of mocking, drunken noblemen, his anger was directed out, across the footlights with only a few over the shoulder glances at his tormentors.
	www.citybeat.com /2005-07-20/webonstage2.shtml (816 words)

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