Rigoletto - Manitoba Opera

Verdi’s dark story of passion, vengeance, and murder in a sixteenth-century court is as heartbreaking as it is ironic.

The Synopsis

This captivating tale of a father’s devotion, a daughter’s innocence, and a duke’s lechery is set to some of Verdi’s most brilliant tunes. Rigoletto is a court jester who pokes fun at the pitfalls of the courtiers, all for the amusement of the Duke, a notorious womanizer. The joke’s on Rigoletto, however, when it turns out that his daughter Gilda might be the Duke’s next target. When the jester pits himself against his master in an effort to protect his daughter’s virtue, he inadvertently destroys all that is dear to him.

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Based on Victor Hugo’s drama Le Roi S’Amuse
Place: Mantua, Italy
Time: Sixteenth century

Sung in Italian with projected English translations.

Running time is approximately 2 hours, 48 minutes.

Our Land Acknowledgement:

Manitoba Opera is located upon, and operates within, Treaty #1 territory, the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples’ traditional lands and waters and the Red River Métis Nation homelands.

As water nourishes the land and all it gives us, we also acknowledge that the source of the City of Winnipeg’s water is from Shoal Lake, the home and shared territory of Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent Nation and Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

In view of such understandings and acknowledgments, Manitoba Opera remains committed to working in partnership with the Indigenous peoples in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.

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(Lower Level, Centennial Concert Hall)
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