We are delighted to recommend to our audience the NCPA Opera Film “Rigoletto” , which will be screened on August 11th at the NCPA Beijing.
It is a story that happens in the 16th century in Italy’s Matua. The protagonist Rigoletto, ugly and hunchbacked, is a jester in the palace of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke, young and handsome, only takes pleasure from flirting with women, which evokes the courtiers’ discontentment. However, Rigoletto only mocks at the courtiers’ wives and daughters’ misfortune and offends many people and finally gets the misfortune of losing his daughter. His daughter Gilda is innocent and beautiful. The Duke disguises himself as a poor student and secretly chases her and at last gets her love. Later, Rigoletto lures the Duke to sleep in the hotel with a beauty and hires an assassin to kill him. At dawn, he finds that it is the dying Gilda who has disguised herself as the Duke. Infact, the young girl, who loves the Duke though he does not really love her, knew the assassin plan and is willing to die for the Duke because of love.
Production Year: 2017
Duration: 145 mins
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Chinese & English
Presenter: China National Centre for the Performing Arts
Executive Presenter / Chief Supervisor: CHEN Ping
Credits
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist: Francesco Maria Plave
Conductor: Pedro Halffter Caro
Stage Director: Stefano Vizioli
Film Director: WANG Ying
Cast
Rigoletto: Leo Nucci
Duke of Mantua: Piero Pretti
Glida: Irina Dubrovskaya
Presenters: China NCPA Chorus & China NCPA Orchestra