Release Date

29 Jan, 2022

Runtime

02:22: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions, commanding American baritone Quinn Kelsey gives a searing portrayal of the title character, a deformed court jester determined to protect the virtue of his daughter, Gilda, sung by radiant soprano Rosa Feola. His debauched employer, the Duke of Mantua, is tenor Piotr Beczała, with dynamic young maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium to lead a cast that also features bass Andrea Mastroni as the assassin Sparafucile and mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena.

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Actors

Rosa Feola

Piotr Beczala

Quinn Kelsey

Craig Colclough

Andrea Mastroni

Varduhi Abrahamyan

Scott Scully

Sylvia D'Eramo

Jeongcheol Cha

Christopher Job

Eve Gigliotti

Catherine Mieun Choi-Steckmeyer

Yohan Yi

Crew

Donald Holder

David Frost

Bartlett Sher

Matt Dobkin

Gary Halvorson

Giuseppe Verdi

Victoria Warivonchik

Daniele Rustioni

Catherine Zuber

Louisa Briccetti

Michael Yeargan

Mia Bongiovanni

Merrin Lazyan

Isabel Leonard