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The Amateur
This post is the fifth entry in an ongoing series about the operas of the standard repertoire. #1 was Eugene Onegin, #2 was La bohème, #3 was The Marriage of Figaro, #4 was Faust. You can see all my posts tagged “opera” for more.
I’ve always had a little trouble with Verdi's operas, especially his earlier works. Compared to his contemporaries, his musical language can feel a bit naive: at his most formulaic, it’s a mix of oom-pah-pah beats under complaisant Italianate melodies, with portentous minor chords from the orchestra when a bit of drama is called for. But if you’re an opera person, Verdi is impossible to avoid. He was the singular titan of Italian opera for the better part of the nineteenth century: no other Italian composer came anywhere close in fame and popularity during his lifetime. His music steadily increased in sophistication over his career, but his most popular operas are still the mid-career trio he composed back-to-back in the early 1850’s: Il trovatore (The Troubador), La traviata (The Fallen Woman) and Rigoletto.
Rigoletto, to my mind, is easily the best of the three and unequivocally a masterpiece. It’s one of the operas I would have no trouble recommending to someone new to the genre: a compelling plot, reasonably
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Rigoletto
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
This article is about the opera. For the film based on the original opera, see Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story. For other uses, see Rigoletto (disambiguation).
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts[a] 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.
Composition history
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