Even if you are not a big fun of modern adaptation for traditional art forms, you will enjoy the time-tested tunes and passionate performance. It seems the story is destined for such transformations in time and place as the current production is set in Las Vegas in the 60s with all the bells and whistles of that turbulent era.
For the original opening of the opera in 1851, Verdi and his librettist Francesco Maria Piave shifted the setting in Victor Hugo play which the opera is based on from early-16th century french court to Renaissance time Mantua, Italy. Rigoletto in Las-Vegas? This vibrant and colorful production of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved opera is sure to entertain and engage everyone. April 2017 Opera in NYC: Rigoletto at Met Opera Scene from the opera / image source
0 kommentar(er)
