Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Staging team
- Conductor: F. Drs, R. Hein
- Stage director: K. Jernek
- Set designer: Z. Kolář
- Costume designer: O. Filipi
- Choreography: D. Wiesner
- Chorus master: T. Karlovič
- Assistant director: O. Kyndlová
Cast
- Conductor: R. Hein, F. Drs, H. Griffiths
- Rigoletto, court jester: M. Cavalcanti, R. Haan, V. Chmelo, M. Bárta
- Gilda, his daughter: J. Sibera, A. Todorova, D. Vaňkátová, M. Vyskvorkina, H. Jonášová
- Duke of Mantua: N. Višnjakov, M. Šrejma, T. Černý
- Sparafucile: M. Bürger, L. Hynek-Krämer, L. Mlejnek, I. Hrachovec
- Maddalena, his sister: G. Ibragimova, S. Čmugrová, A. Kalivodová, J. Sýkorová
- Giovanna, Gilda’s companion: J. Levicová, L. Popova Alabozova
- Count Monterone: O. Korotkov, F. Zahradníček, J. Kruglov
- Courtiers: Marullo: O. Kříž, M. Matoušek
- Courtiers: Borsa: J. Hruška, L. Havlák
- Count Ceprano: R. Vocel, L. Hynek-Krämer, I. Hrachovec, M. Horák
- Countess Ceprano: E. Jarkovská, L. Popova Alabozova
- Page: P. Břicháčová, G. Pešinová
Verdi was highly captivated by the possibility of bringing a hunchback on stage, a cripple with derision on his lips, tears in his eyes and anxiety in his soul. A person, who knows well enough his doings are wrong, apprehending all the more the curse fallen on his head. Rigoletto is a tragedy of social injustice and inequality, which is evident both in the title character of the jester as well as in the explicit portrayal of the wanton lifestyle of the nobility. The masterful opera works of G. Verdi, most characteristic by their drama and melody, still remain part of the core repertory of all of the world’s opera stages.
Premiere: Jan 14, 1988
Response in the press
“The experienced stage director, Karel Jernek, shunned the option of going experimental and stuck to the work’s traditional reading. In the process, aided by the set designer and spectacular costumes, he laid emphasis most notably on the splendour of the ducal court, thereby at the same time obliquely upstaging the wickedness and perfidiousness dwelling within its walls…”
(Vilém Pospíšil, Hudební rozhledy, Praha, 5/1988)
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