rigoletto en
TRANSCRIPT
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Brief synopsis
At a ball at the court, the hunchbacked jester Rigoletto mocks the courtiers cuckolded by the profligate Duke of Mantua, stirring them to plans of vengeance by abducting Rigoletto daughter Gilda, believing her to be Rigoletto mistress.
Gilda has never revealed to his father that she has fallen in love with a handsome young man who tells her he is a poor student, but he is in fact the libertine Duke himself.
After her abduction, Gilda is brought to Duke’s bedroom and, when Rigoletto realizes what has happened, he despairs and swears vengeance on the Duke.
Rigoletto pays a hit man to kill the Duke, but it happens that in this wild and stormy night, Gilda is wrongly stabbed by the hit man himself.
Gilda finally dies in the arms of Rigoletto.
It was not easy for Verdi to compose Rigoletto at that time of 1851. He intended to put music to a particular subject, with characters that had already caused scandal in Paris a few years ago(The king amused - by Victor Hugo) but nothing could be done about the censors, who would not allow the king to be portrayed as a cynical libertine.
He had to accept several changes to the original French version: the protagonist François I king of France was transformed into an anonymous Duke of Mantua. But Verdi did not want the king as protagonist of his opera; he preferred the court buffoon. And so the definitive title became Rigoletto (from the French Tribolet).
The premiere accorded a resounding success by the public. Rigoletto was the first of what is known as Verdi's "popular trilogy", followed by La Traviata and Il trovatore..
The premiere accorded a resounding success by the public. Rigoletto was the first of what is known as Verdi's "popular trilogy", followed by La Traviata and Il trovatore..
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
schiavo son de' vezzi tuoiI am a slave to your charms
con un detto sol tu puoiwith but a single word you could
le mie pene consolarrelieve my every pain
Vieni, e senti del mio coreCome, touch my breast and feel
il frequente palpitarhow my heart is racing
con un detto sol tu puoiwith but a single word you could
le mie pene consolar
relieve my every pain
JOANSUTHERLAND
Bella figlia dell'amoreFairest daughter of love
SHERRIL MILNES
JOANSUTHERLAND
MARILYN HORNE
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
JOANSUTHERLAND
SHERRIL MILNES
MARILYN HORNE
La donna è mobilequal piuma al vento
muta d'accentoe di pensiero
Sempre un amabileleggiadro viso
in pianto o in risoè mensognero
Woman is flightylike a feather in the wind
she changes her voiceand her mindalways sweet
pretty facein tears or in laughter
she is always lying
La donna è mobilequal piuma al vento
muta d'accentoe di pensiero
Woman is flightylike a feather in the wind
she changes her voiceand her mind
E' sempre miserochi a lei s'affidachi a le confida
mal cauto il core!Pur mai non sentesi
felice appienochi su quel senonon liba amore!
Always miserableis he who trusts her
he who confides in herhis unwary heart!
Yet one never feelsfully happy
who on that bosom does not drink love!
La donna è mobilequal piuma al vento
muta d'accentoe di pensiero
Woman is flightylike a feather in the wind
she changes her voiceand her mind
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