MET OPERA: RIGOLETTO

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Saturday, February 16th, 2013
9:55 AM to 12:55 PM

Rising Italian conductor Michele Mariotti leads the new production premiere of Rigoletto, seen in a new staging by the Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer in his Met debut. Mayer�s approach transports the story from 16th-century Italy to Las Vegas in 1960, with a cast led by �eljko Lu?i? in the title role, Diana Damrau as his daughter, Gilda, Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua, �tefan Koc�n as the assassin Sparafucile, and Oksana Volkova in her Met debut as Sparafucile�s seductive sister, Maddalena. �I�ve tried to imagine a recent world that captures the decadence of the Duke�s palace, where the participants are in pursuit of power, money, and beauty,� Mayer says. �Las Vegas in the �60s is such a world, where a kind of prankster energy could go bad�it�s the epitome of the kinds of events that happen in Rigoletto.�