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Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto - Piero Cappuccilli, Ileana Cotrubas / Deutsche Grammophon 3x LP, Box Set, Stereo
9116 1611-13
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
The work, Verdi's sixteenth in the genre, is widely considered to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career. Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by the Count Monterone, whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from the assassin hired by her father.
| Label: | Deutsche Grammophon – 9116 1611-13 |
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| Format: |
3 x Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Box Set
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| Country: | Germany |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Opera, Romantic |
Tracklist:
| A | Atto Primo, Preludio - No. 1 - 2 | |
| B | Atto Primo, No. 3 - 4 | |
| C | Atto Primo, No. 5 - 7 | |
| D | Atto Secondo, No. 8 - 9 | |
| E1 | Atto Secondo, No. 10 | |
| E2 | Atto Terzo, No. 11, No. 12 (I) | |
| F | Atto Terzo, No. 12 (II), No. 13 - 14 |
- Choir – Wiener Staatsopernchor
- Composed By – Giuseppe Verdi
- Conductor – Carlo Maria Giulini
- Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Hans-Peter Schweigmann
- Libretto By – Francesco Maria Piave
- Liner Notes – David Kimbell, Reinhard Strohm, Richard Osborne (2)
- Orchestra – Wiener Philharmoniker
- Producer – Günther Breest
- Recording Supervisor – Hans Weber
- Vocals [Borsa Matteo] – Walter Gullino
- Vocals [Gilda] – Ileana Cotrubas
- Vocals [Giovanna] – Hanna Schwarz
- Vocals [Il Conte Di Ceprano] – Dirk Sagemüller
- Vocals [Il Conte Di Monterone] – Kurt Moll
- Vocals [Il Duca Di Mantova] – Plácido Domingo
- Vocals [Maddalena] – Elena Obraztsova
- Vocals [Marullo] – Luigi De Corato
- Vocals [Paggio Della Duchessa] – Audrey Michael
- Vocals [Rigoletto] – Piero Cappuccilli
- Vocals [Sparafucile] – Nicolai Ghiaurov
- Vocals [Usciere Di Corte] – Anton Scharinger
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