The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto (2022)

Music

One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions, commanding American baritone Quinn Kelsey gives a searing portrayal of the title character, a deformed court jester determined to protect the virtue of his daughter, Gilda, sung by radiant soprano Rosa Feola. His debauched employer, the Duke of Mantua, is tenor Piotr Beczała, with dynamic young maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium to lead a cast that also features bass Andrea Mastroni as the assassin Sparafucile and mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena.

Director: Gary Halvorson

Casts

	Rosa Feola as Gilda
	Piotr Beczała as The Duke
	Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto
	Craig Colclough as Monterone
	Andrea Mastroni as Sparafucile
	Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena
	Scott Scully as Borsa
	Sylvia D'Eramo as Countess Ceprano
	Jeongcheol Cha as Marullo
	Christopher Job as Count Ceprano
	Eve Gigliotti as Giovanna
	Catherine Mieun Choi-Steckmeyer as A Page
	Yohan Yi as A Guard

Crew