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Slanciare il cane a leon morente è vile, o Duca.
E tu serpente,
tu che d’un padre ridi al dolore,
sii maledetto!— Monterone, Rigoletto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PGuAcw5TuI&t=91s
#operaQuote #opera #Verdi #Rigoletto #Monterone #IngvarWixell
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Slanciare il cane a leon morente è vile, o Duca.
E tu serpente,
tu che d’un padre ridi al dolore,
sii maledetto!— Monterone, Rigoletto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PGuAcw5TuI&t=91s
#operaQuote #opera #Verdi #Rigoletto #Monterone #IngvarWixell
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Slanciare il cane a leon morente è vile, o Duca.
E tu serpente,
tu che d’un padre ridi al dolore,
sii maledetto!— Monterone, Rigoletto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PGuAcw5TuI&t=91s
#operaQuote #opera #Verdi #Rigoletto #Monterone #IngvarWixell
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Slanciare il cane a leon morente è vile, o Duca.
E tu serpente,
tu che d’un padre ridi al dolore,
sii maledetto!— Monterone, Rigoletto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PGuAcw5TuI&t=91s
#operaQuote #opera #Verdi #Rigoletto #Monterone #IngvarWixell
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Slanciare il cane a leon morente è vile, o Duca.
E tu serpente,
tu che d’un padre ridi al dolore,
sii maledetto!— Monterone, Rigoletto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PGuAcw5TuI&t=91s
#operaQuote #opera #Verdi #Rigoletto #Monterone #IngvarWixell
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La ópera regresa a Santiago con su cara más oscura: “La Maledizione – Rigoletto” | vía #UChileRadio
#culturasantiago #giuseppeverdi #rigoletto #teatroca660 #ópera
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For tonight's opera, instead of my usual light fare, I chose something tragic. I had been curious about it for quite some time, and it also fits neatly into my list of Schipa's operas, which I shall soon finish at this rate. But it was well worth it.
Libretto
https://www.opera-arias.com/verdi/rigoletto/libretto/english/
Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsxxPDbqQkY&list=OLAK5uy_kdJVBOkQal084JqOED2nAmAR8suE1h69I
There does seem to be a curse in this opera, and it's not the one on Rigoletto! First, I couldn't find the version with Tagliavini. Then, a friend kindly gave the link to me, and I was happy, because I found a version of the libretto at Hathi Trust. I thought it would be wonderful, like Linda di Chamounix, in which all I had to do was read every other page for the English. Instead, this one had English and Italian mixed in the same lines, so that there was no way for me to make sense of it with my screen reader. I found another at the Internet Archive, but the txt version had so many errors that even I, being accustomed to making sense of such things after a lifetime of having to do so, found it difficult to read! So I was forced to use a modern version at a site that I usually avoid for that very reason. Fortunately, it wasn't bad, and I was able to read the story. And I thought the mix-up with I Due Figaro was bad!
At any rate, I make it a point not to judge operas as I would real life, nor do I add current ideas to them. But even by the standards of that time, it seems that Rigoletto was controlling and strange, not telling his own daughter his name or that of her mother and basically imprisoning her in the house, only allowing her to go to church. It's no wonder, then, that she fell in love with the Duke, who was probably the only other man she knew and was initially kind to her. Of course, all of it serves as a wonderful means of creating a great plot, with her innocence and love being a large part of it. This reminds me of a Greek or Shakespearian tragedy, with anger, vengence, and mistaken identity all playing a role in the eventual outcome. For one of the very few times in my life after finishing a story, I found myself thinking of the effects of the ending. I couldn't help but wonder what would happen once the Duke found out that Gilda not only died but sacrificed her life for him. He certainly had his flaws, but he was not represented as truly violent or evil.
Since this was a playlist, after downloading it, I slightly modified the track names by adding numbers, i.e. 001 to 030, then played them using Media Player Legacy, which played them all in the correct order, without my having to do anything. As is to be expected from RAI, the sound quality of this is truly excellent. If this were classical music and not an opera, I would have not liked all the crashes and loud music, but here, of course, they make complete sense and add to the ambiance and story itself. I knew all of the main singers, so I'm not surprised at all by the excellent performances, but it was still a pleasure to hear the characters brought to life in this way. Aside from the wonderful arias, several of which I already knew, I loved the quartet near the end. I was also impressed by the sound effect of the storm. The ending, of course, was done extremely well, both musically and in acting. While I will try earlier versions out of curiosity, I am very glad that I chose this one and I highly recommend it.
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*Note. I only listen to recordings from the 1950's and earlier, unless I absolutely can't avoid a modern one.*
I'm seeking the following version of Rigoletto, but I can't seem to find it on Youtube. I was very excited, since it would give me another chance to hear Tagliavini in a full opera.
"1954
Giuseppe Taddei,
Ferruccio Tagliavini,
Lina Pagliughi,
Giulio Neri,
Irma Colasanti
Angelo Questa
RAI Orchestra Sinfonica and chorus"Fortunately, I found many other versions mentioned on Wikipedia and narrowed them down to these. I had to remove 1916, because, again, I couldn't find it, though I did find another conducted by Molajoli and with singers whom I know. I included the 1917 mostly for the conductor. If no one can help me locate the 1954, which other version should I choose? I'm strongly considering 1927-30.
"1917
Giuseppe Danise,
Carlo Broccardi,
Ayres Borghi-Zerni,
Vincenzo Bettoni,
Nelda Garrone
Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEVqbz3edNM"1927–28
Luigi Piazza,
Tino Folgar,
Lina Pagliughi,
Salvatore Baccaloni,
Vera de Christoff
Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFjwmaGRUY4"1927 (Youtube says 1927-30)
Riccardo Stracciari,
Dino Borgioli,
Mercedes Capsir,
Ernesto Dominici,
Anna Masetti-Bassi
Lorenzo Molajoli
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5uQWPK8Ong(Not in list, special recording from the Met in 1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYTb_ZREEGEThe full list can be found here.
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Quando la tua migliore amica ti fa un regalo bello 😍
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Como hai que ter construído o cerebro para ser capaz de engarzar estas catro voces deste xeito?
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=n49nwzZRRyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n49nwzZRRyY
#rigoletto #opera -
«Bella figlia dell’amore
schiavo son de’ vezzi tuoi;
con un detto sol tu puoi le mie pene,
le mie pene consolar!»— Duca di Mantova to Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto
(Lovely daughter of love, slave am I to thy charms; With one utterance alone you could comfort my pain!)
🎨 The Ill Matched Couple. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1522
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«Bella figlia dell’amore
schiavo son de’ vezzi tuoi;
con un detto sol tu puoi le mie pene,
le mie pene consolar!»— Duca di Mantova to Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto
(Lovely daughter of love, slave am I to thy charms; With one utterance alone you could comfort my pain!)
🎨 The Ill Matched Couple. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1522
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«Bella figlia dell’amore
schiavo son de’ vezzi tuoi;
con un detto sol tu puoi le mie pene,
le mie pene consolar!»— Duca di Mantova to Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto
(Lovely daughter of love, slave am I to thy charms; With one utterance alone you could comfort my pain!)
🎨 The Ill Matched Couple. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1522
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«Bella figlia dell’amore
schiavo son de’ vezzi tuoi;
con un detto sol tu puoi le mie pene,
le mie pene consolar!»— Duca di Mantova to Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto
(Lovely daughter of love, slave am I to thy charms; With one utterance alone you could comfort my pain!)
🎨 The Ill Matched Couple. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1522
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«Bella figlia dell’amore
schiavo son de’ vezzi tuoi;
con un detto sol tu puoi le mie pene,
le mie pene consolar!»— Duca di Mantova to Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto
(Lovely daughter of love, slave am I to thy charms; With one utterance alone you could comfort my pain!)
🎨 The Ill Matched Couple. Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1522
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Left work and went to catch the bus but decided to stop and get dinner at #Rigoletto's and met Thomas Lukaszuk and had a good chat. Go #NDP come Monday. #abpoli
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Always striking how Verdi (and/or possibly Victor Hugo) just disregards dramatic structure completely for this piece, and how well it works. There is no suspense in the sense of how it's going to play out. From almost the opening scene you know it's going to go badly, and once Gilda is introduced it is perfectly clear exactly how it's going to go badly. #Rigoletto
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Gilda's "Such grief, such tears!" duet with #Rigoletto uses a motif very similar to that appearing in the Act II duet between Germont (senior) and Violetta in La Traviata. With Verdi, grief has a very specific sound.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yXFOiSoodDI&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE&t=535
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When watching #Rigoletto interact with his doomed daughter Gilda, one cannot help but be extremely aware - as in La Traviata - that Verdi had an unreasonable amount of experience in watching people he loved die.
From a letter Verdi wrote many years after the central tragedy of his life:
"My small son fell ill at the beginning of April: the doctors could not discover what was wrong, and the poor child died painfully, in the arms of his desperate mother. But this was no enough: a few days later the young girl also fell ill!…and this illness also proved fatal!…and even this was not enough: in the first days of June my young wife was struck down by violent encephalitis and on 19 June 1840 a third coffin left my house!… I was alone!…alone!…In the space of about two months, the three people most dear to me had vanished for ever: my family had been destroyed."
I went into some more detail on this in my Opera Club posts about La Traviata: http://tleaves.com/post/la-traviata-part-i/
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"Quel vecchio maladivami" is the name of my punk rock band. #Rigoletto
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Kinda interesting musically that when Sparafucile names himself, it's in an extremely high register for this otherwise bass role. He's from Burgundy! #Rigoletto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=190&v=l2bbcK7VnRk&feature=emb_logo
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Sparafucile, the assassin Rigoletto meets and later hires, is wearing a FABULOUS full length leather trenchcoat #Rigoletto
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Riker googling "Why doesn't Monterone's curse affect the Duke of Mantua?" #Rigoletto
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He DOES curse the Duke! It just doesn't take in that case, apparently. It's well-known that curses are more effective on clowns. #Rigoletto
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Count Monterone (the aggrieved father who curses #Rigoletto (but apparently not the Duke? Bad aim my dude) is costumed like the most famous photo of Victor Hugo. Presumably this is not an accident.
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True story about #Rigoletto: originally it was based on a Victor Hugo story called "Le Roi s'Amuse", "The King Amuses Himself". Censors demanded Verdi change the King to a Duke, to not run afoul of lèse-majesté.
This happened a lot in the arts, and a lot to Verdi. This is why Un Ballo in Maschera takes place in Boston and involves an assassination plot against a Count, rather than against Gustav III of Sweden.
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Was Verdi the only 19th century (male) opera composer who actually had empathy for women? Possibly. #Rigoletto
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OK really interesting aesthetic: the men of the Duke's court are all dressed in fascist military uniforms, the women are all flappers, and Rigoletto himself has an F.W. Murnau thing going on. #Rigoletto
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Two of the summer festivals where I'll be performing roles next year announced their 2023 seasons last week!
Firstly: I'm so glad to be returning to Opera Holland Park next summer (who gave me my first professional opera contract) to sing the role of Contessa Ceprano in "Rigoletto" - this was supposed to happen in 2020, so I'm thrilled it's finally happening! We've performances 30 May - 24 June🃏
#opera #verdi #rigoletto #singer #mezzosoprano #mezzo #operasinger #contessaceprano #classicalmusic
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Two of the summer festivals where I'll be performing roles next year announced their 2023 seasons last week!
Firstly: I'm so glad to be returning to Opera Holland Park next summer (who gave me my first professional opera contract) to sing the role of Contessa Ceprano in "Rigoletto" - this was supposed to happen in 2020, so I'm thrilled it's finally happening! We've performances 30 May - 24 June🃏
#opera #verdi #rigoletto #singer #mezzosoprano #mezzo #operasinger #contessaceprano #classicalmusic
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Two of the summer festivals where I'll be performing roles next year announced their 2023 seasons last week!
Firstly: I'm so glad to be returning to Opera Holland Park next summer (who gave me my first professional opera contract) to sing the role of Contessa Ceprano in "Rigoletto" - this was supposed to happen in 2020, so I'm thrilled it's finally happening! We've performances 30 May - 24 June🃏
#opera #verdi #rigoletto #singer #mezzosoprano #mezzo #operasinger #contessaceprano #classicalmusic
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Two of the summer festivals where I'll be performing roles next year announced their 2023 seasons last week!
Firstly: I'm so glad to be returning to Opera Holland Park next summer (who gave me my first professional opera contract) to sing the role of Contessa Ceprano in "Rigoletto" - this was supposed to happen in 2020, so I'm thrilled it's finally happening! We've performances 30 May - 24 June🃏
#opera #verdi #rigoletto #singer #mezzosoprano #mezzo #operasinger #contessaceprano #classicalmusic
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Two of the summer festivals where I'll be performing roles next year announced their 2023 seasons last week!
Firstly: I'm so glad to be returning to Opera Holland Park next summer (who gave me my first professional opera contract) to sing the role of Contessa Ceprano in "Rigoletto" - this was supposed to happen in 2020, so I'm thrilled it's finally happening! We've performances 30 May - 24 June🃏
#opera #verdi #rigoletto #singer #mezzosoprano #mezzo #operasinger #contessaceprano #classicalmusic
