Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Renato Palumbo & Choeurs de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie

Verdi - Rigoletto

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Video Director: David Mathy - Artist: Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Renato Palumbo & Choeurs de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Soloist: Leo Nucci, Gianluca Terranova, Patrick Delcour, Giovanni Iovino, Alexise Yerna, Benoit Delvaux, Roger Joakim, Désirée Rancatore, Luciano Montanaro & Carla Dirlikov - Producer: Oxymore, Jean-Romain Sales, Opera Royal de Wallonie-Liege & Jim & Jules - Conductor: Renato Palumbo - Chorus: Choeurs de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Writer: Victor Hugo & Francesco Maria Piave - Composer: Giuseppe Verdi - Orchestra: Orchestra de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège, Belgium | 136 min | 2015 | TV-PG

Verdi - Rigoletto

Under the musical direction of Renato Palumbo, the Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie present the opera "Rigoletto". At the end of his life, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi considered Rigoletto as his most beautiful and accomplished opera. Inspired by Victor Hugo's play "Le roi s’amuse", created for the French Theater in 1832, Verdi is particularly intrigued with the buffoon’s tragic character. Despite the strong pressure of the moral and religious censorship of the time, Rigoletto - after its premiere on March 11th, 1851 in Venice – was received with great enthusiasm. The next day, all of Venice hummed the melody of 'La donna è mobile'! The plot of the opera revolves around the struggles of Rigoletto, Duke of Mantua’s buffoon and depraved seducer and his daughter, Gilda. This interpretation was recorded 2015 at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège and stars Leo Nucci, Desirée Rancatore, Gianluca Terranova, Luciano Montanaro, Carla Dirlikov, Benoit Delvaux and more.

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