Release Date

19 Sep, 2001

Runtime

02:49: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal Opera’s most celebrated and popular productions, director David McVicar mixes lavish historical costumes and dark stylized settings to highlight the savagery and excitement of Verdi’s tale of misdirected revenge. Paolo Gavanelli is vocally and theatrically electrifying as the hunchback anti-hero, acclaimed soprano Christine Schäfer is his doomed daughter, and superstar tenor Marcelo Alvarez is her fickle lover. With superb playing from the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, it adds up to a thrilling Rigoletto for both opera aficionados and newcomers.

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Actors

Paolo Gavanelli

Marcelo Álvarez

Giovanni Battista Parodi

Eric Halfvarson

Christine Schäfer

Graciela Araya

Elizabeth Sikora

Crew

Victor Hugo

Sue Judd

David McVicar

Giuseppe Verdi

Francesco Maria Piave

Edward Downes