Opera RIGOLETTO
Giuseppe Verdi

RIGOLETTO • Jan-22 2021 | Teatro San Carlo, Napoli
A music trip to Naples can be a wonderful combination. The city offers excellent culinary attractions and a cityscape that is best explored on foot with a private guide. You are constantly reminded of the volcano that spilled over Pompeii almost 2,000 years ago. Today this is a worthwhile destination. And then Amalfi invites to a long day trip or a connecting stay. Also Capri, Ischia and the Aeolian Islands. You could easily spend months there.
But the highlight of your musical journey is the visit to the Teatro San Carlo to a performance of your choice.
“RIGOLETTO”, Giuseppe Verdi • From 16 to 24 January 2021
Rigoletto – Season 2021 – The new events calendar after COVID – update from September 2020
Melodramma in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Le Roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo
Conductor • Stefano Ranzani
Master of the Chorus • Gea Garatti Ansini
Stage director • Giancarlo Cobelli
Set designer • Paolo Tommasi
Costume designer • Giusi Giustino
Cast
Duke of Mantua • René Barbera (16, 19, 22 and 24) / Giulio Pelligra (17, 21 and 23)
Rigoletto • Zeljko Lucic* (16, 19, 22 and 24) / Simone Del Savio* (17, 21 and 23)
Gilda • Aida Garifullina* (16, 19, 22 and 24) / Claudia Pavone (17, 21 and 23)
Sparafucile • Alessio Cacciamani*
Maddalena • Caterina Piva
Giovanna • Sofya Tumanian
Count Monterone • Gabriele Sagona
Marullo • Donato Di Gioia
Matteo Borsa • Enzo Peroni
Count Ceprano • Domenico Apollonio
Countess Ceprano • Fulvia Mastrobuono
*debut at Teatro di San Carlo
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo
Production of Teatro di San Carlo
- Saturday 16 January
- Sunday 17 January
- Tuesday 19 January
- Thursday 21 January
- Friday 22 January
- Saturday 23 January
- Sunday 24 January
Language: Sung in Italian with Italian and English surtitles
Running time: about 2 hours and 50 minutes, including one interval
Adapted from Victor Hugo’s Le Roi s’amuse and performed at La Fenice in Venice in 1851, Rigoletto marks Verdi’s triumphal period of known maturity that will produce, shortly after, the other two titles of his “popular trilogy”. The opera we know today was heavily modified by Austrian censorship for its première and even after its huge success, Rigoletto toured many theaters with different titles and arrangements until reaching its definitive form in the operatic playbills around the world. The storyline of Rigoletto, the hunchbacked court buffoon, whose revenge against the wicked Duke of Mantua turns against his most precious gift, his beloved and violated daughter Gilda, enhances the opera’s perfect theatrical machine, which utilizes the orchestra’s wide gamut of textured emotions, descriptive of the great voices requested by the score. It is an opera about dualism and about opposites. It is dominated by exasperated contrasts such as night and day, shadow and light and it remains as such until its tragic epilogue, built on the volitional exchange of two people. An extreme gesture of purifying love that annihilates hate and violence.
Travel Description
Music trip Naples superior
- Gourmet Dinner
- Exclusive city walking tour in your language
- Aperitif with light dinner before the performance in a famous caffetteria
- Premium tickets in the parquet area at the San Carlo opera house
- 2 nights accommodation with breakfast
Program day by day
Day 1
- Arrival at the hotel
- Dinner at a typical Italian restaurant near the hotel (3-course menu, including drinks)
- Overnight in a hotel in Naples
Day 2
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel
- Exclusive personal guided walking tour in your language
- Before going to the theater; Aperitif with appetizers in a historic place
- Opera or Ballet performance at the San Carlo opera house
- Overnight in a hotel in Naples
Day 3
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel
- Departure and end of the program
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