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Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
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- 11 March 1851, La Fenice, Venice
Rigoletto, opera in three acts by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave) that premiered at La Fenice opera house in Venice on March 11, 1851. Based closely on the controversial 1832 play Le Roi s’amuse (The King Amuses Himself; also performed in English as The
Rigoletto was written by Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Verdi composed the three-part opera in collaboration with Francesco Maria Piave, a librettist who based the story on the controversial 1832 French play Le roi s’amuse (The King Amuses Himself) by Victor Hugo.
Rigoletto. An opera in three acts, sung in Italian. Music by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Based on the play Le Roi s’Amuse by Victor Hugo. First performed March 11, 1851, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
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Probably Verdi's greatest masterpiece, Rigoletto, was premiered in Venice in 1851. Based on a play by Victor Hugo, the libretto had to undergo substantial revisions in order to satisfy the censors, and the composer was on the verge of giving it all up a number of times. The opera quickly became a great success. Pictured is a 1976 Bavarian State Opera production of Rigoletto, directed by Roman ...
As one of the most popular operas in the repertoire, one might not ever expect that Verdi’s Rigoletto had such a beleaguered beginning.. A host of hummable tunes and a tremendously dramatic plot notwithstanding, Verdi’s 19th century opera barely survived the suffocating grip of censorship that seized Western Europe.
