Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III Director, Spring Point Partners, LLC; Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa; and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Montrone. If you are using Internet Explorer or other browsers you may encounter problems with certain sections of our website. Schedule November 10, 2022 19:30:00 He remarks how both men are similarly toxic, a comparison that the opera continually draws between all the male characters as the story develops. However, things started getting a bit off during the dolce sixth leaps on a te and the ensuing sixteenth note runs; the soprano sounded stretched and there was even a moment where she went a bit flat in the runs. The opera will mark Morley's return to the Met following her . The Met rings in the new year with the gala premiere of a bold new take on Verdi's timeless tragedy from Bartlett Sher. Our website has been optimized for viewing in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. He capped off this incredible performance with a lengthy pause, which added tremendous emotional suspense to the moments following Gildas death. In Act two, he arrived on the scene like a man on a mission, his head on a swivel, his body frantic as it searched for his missing Gilda. Metropolitan Opera House, . SAS Performing Arts Concert Opera presents the only New York City performance of the Puccini work Il Trittico. adesso non ridete? was heavily accented, allowing Kelsey to really express Rigolettos fury. Arizona Opera officially announced its 2023/24 Season, featuring four opera productions including a World Premiere in Phoenix and Tucson, as well as the companys inauguralNew Works Festivalin Phoenix, and a new series of community concerts in Tucson. January 18, 2022. The Met: Live in HD - Rigoletto 2022 2,164 views Jan 14, 2022 16 Dislike Share Save Trafalgar Releasing 12.8K subscribers Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Shercreates a bold new take on. Mozart's Idomeneo. Videos. Ella mi fu rapita is the tenors big moment, not only vocally, but also dramatically, allowing for a moment of potential contrast and depth. It will help us make your newsletter content more useful. April 5, 2022 at 11 a.m. Winter Park Library and Events Center 1052 W Morse Boulevard | Winter Park, FL 32789 . Compounding Bernheims performance during this scene was how much fun he seemed to be having, not only flirting with Akhmetshina, but even caressing a cross on the wall, a childish smile on his face. She served as music director and chief conductor of Staatsoper Hannover between 2011 and 2016, and music director of Theater Freiburg between 2003 and 2006. 29 des. Also making her debut was the young mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina as Maddalena. And then there was Quinn Kelsey. During Pari siamo, Kelsey revealed the wide-ranging gamut of colors at his disposal. 20 des. The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto (2022) movie cast and actor biographies. You can always feel tenors getting ready for this big moment and then when it comes, they drag it out, which unfortunately undercuts everything else that makes this aria so emblematic of the Dukes character. She slowly crept up those stairs, the trepidation apparent, and glimpsed inside. Rigoletto is the ninth opera Bartlett Sher has directed at the Met. When Giovanna opened the door for her, she rushed out with tremendous excitement and you could feel the relief as she stepped outside into freedom, her arms spread wide to receive it; it was a truly visceral moment to behold. Polish tenor Piotr Beczaa reprises his portrayal of the Duke of Mantua, the role of his Met debut in 2006. She has also sung Gilda at the Bavarian State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ravenna Festival, and in Rome, Zurich, Turin, and Savona. For more information, visit metopera.org. And suddenly our attention shifts away from Rigolettos truly private and essential CHARACTER moment, to something else. These PDFs do not include cast changes that occurred after the program went to print. On Dec. 31, the Metropolitan Opera opened a new production of "Rigoletto." It was the first time since 2013 that the company was showcasing a new staging of Verdi's masterpiece and it was a departure from the Las Vegas set. His first Gilda! camera operator Music Department Additional Crew Bartlett Sher . We are doing maintenance on the website until approximately 1 am ET Friday, February 10. And when she exited the Dukes room, she moved about the space slowly, her eyes downcast, searching for a place to be alone. Rigoletto returns in the spring for five performances May 28-June 11, 2022. in the middle of his career. Instead, Feolas has greater weight and heft, especially in the middle range where she has brightness but also potency that cuts through. This was a performance to remember from Kelsey, who drew you in with a truly immersive and powerful characterization. This isnt all that dissimilar from the new Lucia di Lammermoor production that opened earlier this year; its more subtle, but the visual dissonance is very much the same. Arizona Operas programming includes something for everyone, from tried-and-true opera lovers to school-aged children and everyone in between. Rigoletto is in three acts to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Later in that same aria, the Cor anglais, which plays in duet with the baritone, sounded off during the entrance to Miei signori, perdono. She also came in so strongly on Io vo mia figlia that Kelseys mia figlia, the key to that parola scenica was inaudible. and purity of tone. The moment where this kind of tempo whiplash stood out more was right before Cortigiani, Rigolettos other big solo moment. The Tony Award-winning director resets the opera's action in 1920s Europe . He is a professor at the Yale School of Drama. After opening with hushed pianissimo on the opening line, his voice exploded with intensity and desperation before resorting back to another soft repetition of Quel vecchio maledivami! Bitterness ensued during O rabbia! Rigoletto contains a wealth of melody, including one that is among the worlds most famous: La donna mobile. All the operas solos are rich with character insight and dramatic development. Cortigiani had its tempo issues and they seemed to overwhelm early on, but he still managed to make the most of the situation, his voice powerful and present, emphasizing Rigolettos anger. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi 's opera Ser Marcantonio written in 1810 [1] but, on the published libretto, the author appears as "M.A." Don Pasquale, opera buffa (comic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (Italian libretto by Donizetti and Giovanni Ruffini) that premiered at the . Find The Metropolitan Opera on Facebook (opens new window), Find The Metropolitan Opera on Twitter (opens new window), Find The Metropolitan Opera on Instagram (opens new window), Toll BrothersMetropolitan Opera International Radio Network. But he had a major triumph this year as the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos and then . Her costume designs are currently featured in the new Broadway production of Moulin Rouge!. Verdi's Rigoletto. The final duet was magnetic not only for Feolas interpretation but Kelseys pained pleas of Non morire, mio tesoro, pietade! It was hard to decipher what was going on and the fact that this kind of abstraction was never hinted at our set up anywhere else in the production (which was played as straight as possible) took you right out of the moment. One might argue that we live in a moment of multi-tasking and that this should be a no-brainer, but breaking the spell of a performer like Quinn Kelsey in the middle of a character-defining scene is unfortunate, if not disrespectful. Rigoletto Levine; Eda-Pierre, Jones, Pavarotti, Quilico, Berberian Watch Now Standard Definition Video VerdiNov 7, 1977 Rigoletto Levine; Cotrubas, Jones, Domingo, MacNeil, Daz Watch Now Buy Tickets Rigolettois only available with a Met Opera on Demand subscription or rental. Wagner's soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead a cast starring Quinn Kelsey in his Met role debut as Rigoletto, Rosa Feola as Gilda, and Piotr Beczaa as the Duke of Mantua. Though her voice is not especially large it carries nicely, especially her plummy chest voice. He has been nominated for 13 Tony Awardswinning in 2008 for South Pacific and 1998 for The Lion Kingin a career featuring more than 50 productions on Broadway. Description New production. desso! You could feel the fear, the shame, the pain, and in one brief moment, the anger of what had happened to her. Even when they struggled with the tempo at the start of Addio addio, they barely missed a step, finding one another and surging forward. The Metropolitan Opera ended its mid-winter hiatus with the much anticipated premiere of Franois Girard's production of Wagner's Lohengrin on Sunday afternoon. Our website has been optimized for viewing in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Taking on that task in this production was Speranza Scappucci, making her Metropolitan Opera debut. Mia colomba, lasciarmi non dei!These were sung with the softest piano singing that Kelsey managed the entire evening, his voice but a weeping thread of sound, each time growing softer and more heart-breaking, especially as he held her in his arms. He responded to Cepranos Chhai di nuovo, buffon? with a perfect, angry imitation, placing a very strong accent on buffon and then adding a sarcastic quality to pi noioso voi siete. The ensuing La r grew more connected, adding a sense of desperation and yearning, each subsequent one sounding more like a man in pain. That Kelsey matched her phrasing only added to the impact of this glorious moment. In the Duke's court he is appropriately terrifying, spitting words out with a cynical sneer. Genre: Opera. He also had the opportunity of interviewing numerous Oscar nominees, Golden Globe winners and film industry giants such as Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and John Leguizamo among others. She brought a seemingly endless supply of energy to the evening, with swift tempi and impressively monolithic brass. For more information, visit metopera.org. Baritone Quinn Kelsey and soprano Rosa Feola reprise rapturously acclaimed turns as the tragic jester Rigoletto and his headstrong daughter, Gilda, and two artists make noteworthy Met debuts: tenor Benjamin Bernheim as the promiscuous Duke of Mantua, and Maestro Speranza Scappucci on the podium. But when he realized the Duke was still alive, his body contorted, and his sound suddenly dimmed as he wondered what had happened. The aforementioned Possente creates some major visual dissonance for the audience do we focus on the tenor singing the aria? He earned a Tony Award for directing South Pacific in 2008 and received Tony nominations for his Broadway productions of Golden Boy, Joe Turners Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, and The Light in the Piazza. After the passion of that top note, the tenor pulled back to his most gentle piano of the passage before crescendoing once more into a final impassioned forte on the final G flat. A dream cast assembles for Strauss's grand Viennese comedy. His body opened up at its most forte, as if ready to take on the world, only to shrink back into itself on his piano lines. This was present at the Allegro vivo following Rigolettos Ah no: folia at the end of Pari siamo and then at the start of Addio speranza ed anima. It was present in the middle of Act two Gilda-Rigoletto duet Tutte le feste al tempio with Rigolettos entrance Ah! Our website has been optimized for viewing in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The Tony Award-winning creative team, including director Bartlett Sher, set designer Michael Yeargan, costume designer Catherine Zuber, and lighting designer Donald Holder, sets the classic tragedy in 1920s Europe, featuring Art Deco sets and elegant costumes. She played up her flirtation with the Duke throughout the quartet and then provided assertiveness throughout the trio. (Who struck you? Her vocal approach to the role was perfectly aligned to her characterization. But the rest of the duet was gloriously sung, with the sopranos fuller sound matching baritone Quinn Kelseys powerful baritone. A new 'guide' can help. Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto and Rosa Feola as Gilda in Verdi's "Rigoletto." Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera. Samson et Dalila (Saint-Sans) Tosca (Puccini) The Elixir of Love (Donizetti) Pretty but Pointless. She is currently a studio artist at Moscows Bolshoi Theatre, which she joined after singing at the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio. With his big shoulders, big jaw, and his great, shiny Half Dome of a head, Kelsey gives Rigoletto immense presence even before he opens his mouth. [June 4, 2022, Encore on June 8, 2022] Check out the entire Met Opera season! 2022 | 13:00 Rigoletto, Verdi, Ah! From her feverish rushing down the stairs to greet her father, you could sense a character full of energy and aspiration. The collection of #PBSForTheArts programs is available at pbs.org/arts and the PBS Video app. And like Laitman, it has always remained one of my favorites, exploring the damaging impact of a toxic patriarchal world where no man is without shame or blame (it was particularly striking this time around to realize that despite being a teenager, Gilda knows nothing of her familys past; her fathers attempt to lock his daughter away from the world seems to include keeping her own story and identity from her as well). But hes here now and he was definitely worth the wait. Presiding over the evening was Speranza Scappucci, also making an overdue debut. His recent Verdi roles elsewhere include Miller in Luisa Miller at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ford in Falstaff at the Dallas Opera, and Rigoletto in Zurich. Previous GREAT PERFORMANCES programs include "Romeo & Juliet" from the National Theatre, "The Arts Interrupted," "Reopening: The Broadway Revival" and "The Conductor." His Met repertory has also included Rodolfo in Luisa Miller and La Bohme, Vaudmont in the company premiere of Iolanta, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, the title role of Faust, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, the Chevalier des Grieux in Manon, Gustavo in Un Ballo in Maschera, and Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur. Verdi doesnt waste a moment and every single note in the piece plays a crucial role in building its tension and tragedy. Met Opera | April 22, 2023 . For instance, the production included an elevator-like structure in the center of the stage that moved up and down in . In a remarkable career spanning six decades in the theater, Giuseppe Verdi (18131901) composed 26 operas, at least half of which are at the core of todays repertoire. We appreciate your patience. Karen Kamensek will conduct the May and June performances of Verdi's Rigoletto, replacing Karel Mark Chichon. The baritone Quinn . 'Rigoletto' at The Met Opera Ken Howard While the highly anticipated revival of The Music Man idles awaiting the recovery from COVID of its stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster and other. Written during the most fertile period of Verdis artistic life, the opera resonates with a universality that is frequently called Shakespearean. During the quartet, Bella figlia dellamore, Bernheim delivered another display of glorious legato singing. The Met Operas faithfulness to Michael Mayers increasingly unnerving, Taking on that task in this production was, In the role of Sparafucile, Relyea continued his revival with the company. The restatement of the main melody was delivered with an even more intimate and sensual piano. A seven-time Tony Awardwinner, her work has been seen on Broadway in productions such as My Fair Lady, Oslo, The King and I, Golden Boy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Born Yesterday, South Pacific, and The Light in the Piazza. For up-to-date casting go back to the previous page. Rigoletto opens on November 10, with Rosa Feola and Lisette Oropesa sharing the role of Gilda, Aigul Akhmetshina as Maddalena, Benjamin Bernheim and Stephen Costello as the Duke of Mantua, and Quinn Kelsey, Michael Chioldi, and Luca Salsi as Rigoletto. That was quickly contrasted in the ensuing scene as he roamed about the streets, delivering a hushed and pained Quel vecchio maledivami! The defensiveness of the opening scene continued throughout the conversation with Sparafucile, Kelsey initially reserved but slowly opened up his sound as he inquired about Sparafuciles methods. She matched tenor Ben Bernheim line for line through il sol dellanima, delivering ethereal piano singing during her opening Ah, de miei vergini sogni son queste that was answered by an equally glorious piano line from him. Abbonamento a partire da 12,50/mese GREAT PERFORMANCES is on Facebook+ follow @GPerfPBS on Twitter. A two-time Tony Awardwinner, his designs for Seascape, The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, Awake and Sing, and Ah, Wilderness have all been seen on Broadway. While she got off to a promising start during that Preludio, the string tremolos surging forward toward the fortissimo orchestral explosions, things started to get a bit hairy once the singers took the stage. It was also quite present during the S vendetta where the initial tempo surged forward so immediately that the actual stringendo written into the score near its climax sounded like a slowdown instead. In their Met debuts, Yulia Matochkina sings Maddalena, and Ante Jerkunica sings Sparafucile. O gioia! You could feel the excitement of this crescendo, exploding with vibrant sound on O gioia and then once again a few bars later on Allonda!. Bartlett Sher's Weimar-inspired production premiered less than a year ago, and is eminently revivable. Continues through Jan. 29 with this cast and conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; metopera.org. Solo per me linfamia, instead of bitter and reproachful, sounded sorrowful and hurt in its approach. New York, NY (December 23, 2021)The Metropolitan Opera rings in the new year with a new production of Verdis Rigoletto on December 31, with an additional eight performances January 4January 29, 2022. 17 des. Met Opera | April 15, 2023. His initial recitativo was colored by bitterness with the ensuing smoothness of his legato on E dove ora sar quellangiol caro? transitioning into a warmer timbre that hinted at his longing for Gilda. This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from, Guilty pleasures: Yoncheva stars in a new, A fine showing for the 1884 Italian version of, To add a comment, please sign in or register. American baritone Quinn Kelsey returns to the Met this season, making his company role debut in the title role of Rigoletto. His 2014 interview with opera star Kristine Opolais was cited in a New York Times Review. Rigoletto has remained a staple at the Met forever. Often times, she was very flexible and allowed the lines to bend and flow organically, but more often than not, those moments would be followed by shockingly fast tempi that threatened to derail the entire enterprise. If her high E flat at the end of act two was a touch effortful, she more than made up for it with some ravishingly soft singing in the final scene. Rigoletto Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Premiered March 11, 1851, La Fenice (Venice, Italy) Verdi's Italian masterpiece opens Opera Colorado's 40th Anniversary Season, featuring unforgettable music, including the effervescent "La donna mobile." At the climactic La Maledizione he interpolated a high G flat and A flat, both delivered ferociously to end the night. And so we come to the end. Baritone Quinn Kelsey and soprano Rosa Feola reprise rapturously acclaimed turns as the tragic jester Rigoletto and his headstrong daughter, Gilda, and two artists make noteworthy Met debuts: tenor Benjamin Bernheim as the promiscuous Duke of Mantua, and Maestro Speranza Scappucci on the podium. It was the epitome of style over substance and after seeing it a few times, no singer however great could get me to subject myself to its charmlessness. The Met Operas faithfulness to Michael Mayers increasingly unnerving Las Vegas production which, once youve experienced the saturation from the spectacle itself, comes off as rather empty in its storytelling. It all started even a few bars earlier with a honeyed rendition of Ogni saggezza chiudesi nel gaudio e nellamore, Bernheim bringing managing a spellbinding diminuendo up the F sharp in the second half of the phrase. The strength of the cast extended all the way to the smaller roles, with Bradley Garvin, terrifying and commanding as Monterone, and Brittany Renee, displaying a megawatt charisma as Countess Ceprano, as the standouts. He has previously conducted at opera companies around the world, including the Bavarian State Opera, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. The famous Act III quartet, Bella figlia dellamore, is an ingenious musical analysis of the diverging reactions of the four principals in the same moment: The Dukes music rises with urgency and impatience, Gildas droops with disappointment, Rigolettos remains measured and paternal, while the promiscuous Maddalena is literally all over the place. Francesco Maria Piave (181076), Verdis librettist for Rigoletto, collaborated with him on ten works, including Ernani, La Traviata, La Forza del Destino, and the original versions of Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra. But the ensuing Act is where her commitment to the character was at its most powerful. If you are using Internet Explorer or other browsers you may encounter problems with certain sections of our website. With Varduhi Abrahamyan, Piotr Beczala, Rosa Feola, Quinn Kelsey. But at the very least its coherent narratively. For more than 50 years, PBS has been the media destination for the arts, presenting dance, theater, opera, visual arts and concerts to Americans in every corner of the country. His phrasing of il sol dellanima featured a polished legato line, each phrase building from the previous one before blossoming into a sublime high B flat on per te that then melted into an equally impassioned diminuendo on the ensuing dinvidia agli uomini sar per te. The return of this vocal ascent was somehow even more potent than the previous one with the diminuendo even stronger, a sign of the vocal flexibility that Bernheim displayed throughout. Start Free 7-Day Trial Rent for $4.99 The collection of #PBSForTheArts programs is available at pbs.org/arts , PBS.org, and the PBS Video App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. Rigoletto Worldwide Broadcasts in Cinema, Radio, and Online. The mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina is making her debut in the role of Maddalena. This original and thrilling production is led by Metropolitan Opera conductor Gregory Buchalter and directed . Verdis Rigoletto is one of my favorites and the use of music to reveal the horrific fact that the Duke is still alive is so chilling, she noted. Later performances feature four additional stars, with baritones Luca Salsi and Michael Chioldi, soprano Lisette Oropesa, and tenor Stephen Costello taking over as Rigoletto, Gilda, and the Duke. Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto), Rosa Feola as Gilda), Ensemble Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Maddalena) Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Maddalena), Piotr Beczaa (Duke of Mantua), Rosa Feola (Gilda), Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto) Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto), Rosa Feola (Gilda) Performance reviews Rigoletto A new cast brings the Met's Rigolettoto life John Relyea (Sparafucile), Benjamin Bernheim (Duke of Mantua) and Aigul Akhmetshina (Maddalena) Curtis Brown | Met Opera Benjamin Bernheim (Duke of Mantua) and Rosa Feola (Gilda) Curtis Brown | Met Opera Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto) Curtis Brown | Met Opera . His particular interests include 20th century French violin sonatas and baroque opera, and he is currently pursuing his PhD in London, UK. The HD broadcasts are supported by Toll Brothers, America's luxury home builder. Rigoletto (Verdi) The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart) The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) La bohme (Puccini) 1993-1994 Season. The second run of Bartlett Sher's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto stars baritone Quinn Kelsey in the title role, soprano Erin Morley as Gilda, mezzo-soprano Yulia Matochkina as Maddalena, tenor Stephen Costello as the Duke of Mantua, and bass Ante Jerkunica as Sparafucile. Arizona Operas programming includes something for everyone, from tried-and-true opera lovers to school-aged children and everyone in between. He has appeared at many of the worlds leading opera houses and festivals, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, and the Salzburg Festival. After a lauded premiere on New Years Eve 2021, Bartlett Shers Art Decoinspired production of Verdis ever-popular masterpiece returns for its first revival. As he rejected her desires for more knowledge, she responded with frustrated arm gestures that delineated the youth and angst of the character. Rigoletto at the Met, Spring Cast May 2, 2013. . The singers, who were all on their A-game, often sounded a bit uncomfortable. Please check if you entered the email address correctly. Then theres some bizarre choices like the sudden abstraction during the Act three trio where the lights go red inside the inn and Gilda has a seeming out of body experience? Croatian bass Ante Jerkunica makes his Met debut as Sparafucile this season. Kelsey is impressive in the title role, his hulking, muscular baritone dominating the stage. What they presented as soprano is actually coloratura, which is the very highest voice type, up there in the range of the very highest choral descants. Italian bass Andrea Mastroni reprises his portrayal of Sparafucile, a role he has previously sung at the Met in 2017 and La Scala. In a recent interview with OperaWire, composer Lori Laitman noted that Verdis Rigoletto was among her favorite operas. Performance History. 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