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LOCATION:Staatsoper Unter den Linden\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Rigoletto
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DESCRIPTION:When Victor Hugo brought his play Le roi s’amuse to the stag
 e for the first and last time in Paris in 1832\, the performance ended wit
 h the immediate banning of the play. When the Italian Risorgimento compose
 r Giuseppe Verdi decided to set the revolutionary French author’s play t
 o music almost 20 years later\, he faced resistance from the censorship au
 thorities.\n\nHe had to change the name of his melodrama from La maledizio
 ne (The curse) to Rigoletto and change its setting to the court of a fic
 tional Duke of Mantua\, but he left the plot and its blatancy untouched. R
 igoletto incites the dissolute Duke to constantly seduce and abduct beauti
 ful women\, treating their families with derision. He is then cursed befor
 e the entire court by the distraught father of a woman he has dishonoured.
  Rigoletto\, however\, hides his daughter Gilda from the shameless goings-
 on. Nonetheless\, the Duke has his eye on her. When Gilda succumbs to the 
 Duke’s arts of seduction\, Rigoletto plans a deadly revenge. In the end\
 , however\, it is not the Duke but Gilda who falls victim to the plot. The
  universally known tenor hit \"La donna è mobile\" becomes a cynical code
  for failure. In Verdi’s first mature work\, the trivial\, the grotesque
 \, and high pathos are all intertwined. The contrasts between garish banda
  music and expressive cantilena form an uncompromising masterpiece of trem
 endous brevity and sharpness.
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