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Tuesday 19 Nov 19
Thursday 21 Nov 19
Saturday 23 Nov 19
Rigoletto (Verdi)
'Courtiers, vile and despicable race, how much were you paid for my dearest?'
3 Shows
19 Nov 13:01h. - 23 Nov 12:02h.
Opera
 Opera de Tenerife (Sala Sinfónica)

Drama in three acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the theatre play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo. In this opera, Verdi portrays all the deep-rooted passions characteristic of man’s nature. Until it was premiered on 11 March 1851 at Teatro de La Fenice in Venice, the composer suffered agonies as he saw it clash against the walls of censorship of the Lombardy-Venice state authorities [Austrian Empire], as it deals with topics which were far too thorny in Italian society before unification. After making some changes, which did not distort the character or the colour of the work, it was finally premiered to great success.


Rigoletto is the title of the famous “popular trilogy” by the Busseto maestro. Like the heroes in Il trovatore and La traviata, Rigoletto is a social outcast, a hunchbacked who works as a jester in the corrupt court of Mantua in the late 16th century, ruled by the beautiful and young Duke of Mantua, a morbid seducer. When his efforts to safeguard the innocence of his daughter Gilda are shattered by the Duke’s lust, the jester will attempt an impossible revenge.


 


 

Musical Director: Giuseppe Finzi


Stage Manager and Designer: Mario Pontiggia


Costume Designer: Claudio Martín


Lighting Designer: Tinguaro Vega


 


Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife


Coro de Ópera de Tenerife


 


Production. Ópera de Tenerife

Il duca di Mantova: Yijie Shi


Rigoletto: Luis Cansino


Gilda: Leonor Bonilla


Sparafucile: Simon Orfila


Maddalena: Guadalupe Barrientos


Giovanna: Sophie Burns

The show is not available to children aged under 5.


Title included in Club Ópera de Tenerife Subscription and  Club Ópera Joven Subscription: enjoy the full season at a 20% discount and many more advantages.


Subscriptions on sale from 7 May to 24 October 2019.

Tuesday 19 Nov
Hour
13:01
Thursday 21 Nov
Hour
12:01
Saturday 23 Nov
Hour
12:02

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