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Rigoletto

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The premiere of Rigoletto (1851) marks a significant milestone in Verdi's oeuvre. The opera, based on a play by Victor Hugo (Le Roi s'amuse, 1832), is a work of bizarre logic, featuring a grotesque blend of wild passion and dark humor, tragic seriousness and desperate mockery. Verdi himself referred to it as a revolutionary opera.

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Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi

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1964
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Rigoletto
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English, German, French, Italian
Released
1964
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Rigoletto
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The premiere of Rigoletto (1851) marks a significant milestone in Verdi's oeuvre. The opera, based on a play by Victor Hugo (Le Roi s'amuse, 1832), is a work of bizarre logic, featuring a grotesque blend of wild passion and dark humor, tragic seriousness and desperate mockery. Verdi himself referred to it as a revolutionary opera.