MET OPERA LIVE IN HD: RIGOLETTO

Posted by Layla on February 16, 2013 in MET OPERA LIVE IN HD | Leave a comment

GIUSEPPI VERDI

2012-2013 HD OPERA SEASON

FEBRUARY 16, 2013 @ 12:55 PM

RUN TIME: 3 HRS 30 MIN

Rising Italian conductor Michele Mariotti leads the new production premiere of Rigoletto, seen in a new staging by the Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer in his Met debut. Mayer’s approach transports the story from 16^th-century Italy to Las Vegas in 1960, with a cast led by Željko Lučić in the title role, Diana Damrau as his daughter, Gilda, Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua, Štefan Kocán as the assassin Sparafucile, and Oksana Volkova in her Met debut as Sparafucile’s seductive sister, Maddalena. “I’ve tried to imagine a recent world that captures the decadence of the Duke’s palace, where the participants are in pursuit of power, money, and beauty,” Mayer says. “Las Vegas in the ‘60s is such a world, where a kind of prankster energy could go bad—it’s the epitome of the kinds of events that happen in Rigoletto.”

Text courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera website:  http://www.metopera.org

CONDUCTOR: Michele Mariotti

PRODUCTION: Michael Mayer

CAST: Željko Lučić, Diana Damrau, Piotr Beczala, Štefan Kocán, Oksana Volkova

CAST SHEET & SYNOPSIS:

http://www.metoperafamily.org/uploadedFiles/MetOpera/8_live_in_hd/2_season/12-13/cast sheets/Rigoletto.HD.synopsis.GlobalandUS.DATES.pdf

VIDEO: Video courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.

PHOTOS: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

POSSE PHOTO:

Lucy, Layla, Isabel & Grace at the movie theatre