opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoGiuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto (1851)
libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Opernhaus Zürich, 2014
- Conductor: Fabio Luisi
- Director: Tatjana Gürbaca
- Set Designer: Klaus Grünberg
- Rigoletto: George Petean
- Duke: Saimir Pirgu
- Gilda: Aleksandra Kurzak
An inventive production, practically semi-staged, with a long table providing all the framing that director Tatjana Gürbaca needed to foreground the drama of Rigoletto.