Rigoletto
at The Grand Canal Theatre Tue 21 Jun - Sat 25 Jun
Tickets priced from €35 on sale now
Verdi's towering opera tells a tragic tale. Rigoletto, a jester employed by a rich and dissolute Duke, is forced to keep his master well supplied with fresh conquests. As a web of court intrigue tightens around him, Rigoletto finds himself the victim of a grave curse, but it is his carefully protected daughter Gilda who is the one to suffer.
From the aching naivety of Gilda's first love to the Duke's unthinking revelry and Rigoletto's tortured realisation of his failure as a father, Verdi takes the characters from elation to despair in an opera densely packed with extraordinary music.
Director Matthew Richardson brings this operatic classic to the stage in a stylish, intelligent and theatrical production. English baritone Eddie Wade sings Rigoletto in his debut in the role, and Nadine Livingston (Musetta in 2010's La bohème) brings a fresh innocence to the role of Gilda. Tobias Ringborg conducts.
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