12/12/15 – Rigoletto @ 1:00PM

Metropolitan Opera

Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Approximate running time 3 hrs 6 mins

George Gagnidze and Željko Lučić share the pinnacle role of the Italian baritone repertory in Michael Mayer’s electrifying production set in 1960 in a Las Vegas casino. Tenors Piotr Beczala and Stephen Costello alternate as the licentious Duke. Back from her triumphant Met debut in I Puritani, soprano Olga Peretyatko is Gilda, Rigoletto’s innocent daughter pursued by the callous Duke. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Verdi’s timeless tragedy.

Sung in: Italian