Crossword clues for rigoletto
rigoletto
- Take one OK game to subdue court favourite
- Verdi work
- Verdi classic
- Operatic jester
- Verdi work about a hunchback jester
- Opera based on Victor Hugo's "Le roi s'amuse"
- Opera about a hunchbacked jester
- Hunchbacked jester of the Duke of Mantua
- Giuseppe Verdi work based on a Victor Hugo play
- "La donnamobile" work
Wikipedia
Rigoletto is a 1993 musical fantasy/drama produced for Feature Films for Families.
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 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.
It is considered by many 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 beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.