Rigoletto

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• Rigoletto – Szenenimpression vom Anfang des Werkes. Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – u. a. Kyle Miller als Marullo, Paul Kaufmann als Matteo Borsa, Andrei Danilov als Herzog Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Andrei Danilov als Herzog, Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Kyle Miller als Marullo Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Kyle Miller als Marullo, Paul Kaufmann als Matteo Borsa Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Byung Gil Kim als Der Graf von Monterone, Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – u. a. Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Patrick Guetti als Sparafucile, Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Julia Muzychenko als Gilda, Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto, Nicole Piccolomini als Maddalena Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Andrei Danilov als Herzog, Julia Muzychenko als Gilda Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Andrei Danilov als Herzog, Julia Muzychenko als Gilda Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Julia Muzychenko als Gilda Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – u. a. Julia Muzychenko als Gilda, Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Andrei Danilov als Herzog Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Kyle Miller als Marullo, Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Julia Muzychenko als Gilda, Paul Kaufmann als Matteo Borsa, Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto, Julia Muzychenko als Gilda Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Roman Burdenko als Rigoletto und Julia Muzychenko als Gilda, Byung Gil Kim als Der Graf von Monterone und Artur Garbas als Ein Gerichtsdiener Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Andrei Danilov als Herzog Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Andrei Danilov als Herzog, Nicole Piccolomini als Giovanna Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Nicole Piccolomini als Giovanna, Andrei Danilov als Herzog Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Patrick Guetti als Sparafucile, Nicole Piccolomini als Giovanna Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Chor und Statisterie der Deutschen Oper Berlin Bettina Stöß

• Rigoletto – Bettina Stöß

In his opera about the hunchbacked court jester, Verdi took the tension between the improbabilities of the plot and the emotional overwhelming power of musical theatre to extremes. Jan Bosse's production tells the tragedy of a man who fails to separate private life and public action ... Conductor: Michele Spotti / Friedrich Praetorius / Giulio Cilona; Director: Jan Bosse; With Andrei Danilov, Etienne Dupuis / Juan Jesús Rodríguez, Brenda Rae / Hye-Young Moon, Geon Kim, Patrick Guetti / Tobias Kehrer, Stephanie Wake-Edwards / Lindsay Ammann a.o.
About the work“As for the effect that a work has as a piece of theatre, I’d say that RIGOLETTO is the best material that I’ve ever set to music […]. It has very powerful scenes, there’s temperament, pathos, a lot of variety.” [Verdi to Antonio Somma, 22nd April 1853]

In describing the attributes of his 1851 melodrama based on Victor Hugo’s acclaimed play “Le roi s’amuse” Verdi also puts his finger on the challenges that any director has to address: RIGOLETTO is namely a masterpiece whose particularity lies in the clash between the characters’ psychology and the improbable action of a fantasy storyline.

It’s a tale that smacks of gothic horror. In his role as court jester to the Duke of Mantua, the hunchbacked Rigoletto is despised by the collected courtiers and in return makes fun of all the men whose wives have been ravished by his boss, a notorious womaniser. So nervous is he that his own daughter, Gilda, might fall victim to the Duke that he conceals her very existence. Finally Rigoletto realises that his attempt to preserve the cocoon of his family life is doomed to fail in this environment of wanton violence. Gilda is seduced too by the Duke, even laying down her life for him.

It is Verdi’s music that gives the story its emotional credibility and makes RIGOLETTO a tragedy that unfurls as a result of the interaction of three very different people – the Duke, a rake for whom Verdi wrote such seductive music that Gilda and the audience alike are swept up in his aura; Rigoletto, one of those typical Verdi creations who have good and bad sides to them; and finally Gilda, a pristine personification of innocence and sympathy. In RIGOLETTO we identify especially with these three people and come to view even the craziest chance incidents as the characters’ inescapable destiny.

About the productionIn his first opera production in Berlin, Jan Bosse too was attracted by this exploitation of musical theatre to maximum effect. In his production Bosse transforms the auditorium of the Deutsche Oper into the Court of Mantua and the under-stage trap room into the hiding place used by Gilda, the daughter of Rigoletto the jester. Rigoletto’s efforts to keep his private life separate from his job in the service of a corrupt regime are futile, however, and his world gradually collapses into its component parts. In the end, with his daughter dead and all his plans dashed, Rigoletto is left, literally, with nothing.

Artists/Collaborators: Michele Spotti (Musikalische Leitung), Jan Bosse (Inszenierung), Stéphane Laimé (Bühne), Kathrin Plath (Kostüme), Jeremy Bines (Chöre), Andrei Danilov (Der Herzog von Mantua), Etienne Dupuis (Rigoletto), Brenda Rae (Gilda), Geon Kim (Der Graf von Monterone), Joel Allison (Der Graf von Ceprano), Alexandra Oomens (Die Gräfin von Ceprano), Kyle Miller (Marullo), Kieran Carrel (Matteo Borsa), Tobias Kehrer (Sparafucile), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Maddalena / Giovanna), Stephen Marsh (Ein Gerichtsdiener), Maria Vasilevskaya (Eine Hofdame), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

Runtime: Fri, 10/01/2025 to Fri, 06/06/2025

Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance

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• Date Friday, 10/January/2025 19:30 (4 more dates)
• Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Price from €32.10

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