Gilda is brought to her father, and tearfully confesses her liaison with the Duke which has robbed her of her honour in rape. She confesses that she met him in church (Tutte le feste al tempio/Each holy day, at church) (0:56), and once kidnapped she found out he was actually the Duke. Rigoletto understands and comforts Gilda (4:54) (Padre, in voi parla un angiol per me consolator, ecc./Father, an angel speaks through you and consoles me, etc.).

Gilda:

Ciel! dammi coraggio!
Tutte le feste al tempio
mentre pregava Iddio,
bello e fatale un giovine
offriasi al guardo mio...
Se i labbri nostri tacquero,
dagli occhi il cor parlò.
Furtivo fra le tenebre
sol ieri a me giungeva...

O Heaven, give me courage!
Each holy day, in church,
as I prayed to God,
a fatally handsome young man
stood where I could see him...
Though our lips were silent,
our hearts spoke through our eyes.
Furtively, only last night he came
to meet me for the first time.


Rigoletto is a melodrama in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the drama Le Roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo. Originally named La Maledizione (“The Curse”), had a triumphant premiere in La Fenice in 1851, where people where allegedly singing “La donna è mobile” on the streets the following day.

Brief synopsis of Rigoletto (spoiler alert): Rigoletto is the story of Rigoletto, a jester in the palace of Duke of Mantua, whose beloved daughter, Gilda, whom he overprotects as the gift of his only love affair, is seduced by the Duke of Mantua, among many others. One of which was the daughter of Count of Monterone, who confronts the Duke and gets cruelly mocked by Rigoletto on its failure to defend his daughter’s honour. Enraged by the jester, Monterone casts a curse on Rigoletto. This is the main leit motiv of the work and will define the fatal ending. In revenge, Gilda is kidnapped by courtisans and taken to the palace, where she is raped by the Duke of Mantua. Rigoletto plans his own vengeance by hiring the hitman Sparafucile to murder the Duke. But Gilda, still madly in love with the Duke, hands herself to Sparafucile to die in his place. Finally, when Rigoletto comes to throw the corpse to whom he believes to be the Duke to the river, is astonished to hear the tune of such in the distance (“La donna é mobile”) and snaps in horror when discovers the body of Gilda inside the stead by the Monterone curse came to fruition.

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Cast: Ingvar Wixell as Rigoletto and Count of Monterone, Luciano Pavarotti as Duke of Mantua, Edita Gruberova as Gilda, Ferruccio Furlanetto as Sparafucile, Victoria Vergara as Maddalena, Fedora Barbieri as Giovanna, Bernd Weikl as Marullo, Remy Corazza as Borsa, Roland Bracht as Count of Ceprano and Kathleen Kuhlmann as Countess of Ceprano.

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