Verdi's Rigoletto opens Scottish Opera season

Scottish Opera's 2018/19 Season begins with Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, a revival of the 2011 production by award-winning director Matthew Richardson and designer Jon Morrell.
Aris Argiris and Lina Johnson in rehearsals. (Photo: Julie Howden)Aris Argiris and Lina Johnson in rehearsals. (Photo: Julie Howden)
Aris Argiris and Lina Johnson in rehearsals. (Photo: Julie Howden)

The production is currently at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow until October 27.

This tragic tale of seduction and revenge, set in a dark and dangerous underworld where cruelty is rife and women are treated as playthings, tells the story of Rigoletto’s suffocating love for his daughter, Gilda.

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Verdi’s 1851 masterpiece, which premiered at La Fenice in Venice, is packed with some of the best-loved

music in opera, including the moving Act III quartet and ‘La donne è mobile’, in which the libertine Duke of Mantua sings of his casual disregard for women.

Rumon Gamba conducts a talented cast including internationally-acclaimed baritone Aris Argiris as Rigoletto; Lina Johnson, who garnered praise for her Gilda in Trieste in 2016; Adam Smith, the award-winning British tenor and recent Jette Parker Young Artist programme graduate David Shipley.

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