filled with action drama and death this
opera is one of history’s most enduring
hi I’m mahalo common and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’ll be learning
more about verdes masterpiece Rigoletto
can you tell us when and who composed
this opera the most famous italian
composer revered throughout Italy Verdi
in the middle of the 19th century and
can you tell us what the plot of the
Opera is a court jester Rigoletto who
has a beautiful daughter that he keeps
locked up the daughter is seduced by the
licentiousness and Rigoletto swears that
he will kill the Duke as punishment for
staining his daughter unfortunately it
all goes wrong the daughter falls in
love with the Duke it’s her first love
and she sacrifices her only love in
place of the Duke can you tell us where
the inspiration for the story came about
Victor Hugo play called the king who
amuses himself which Verde like the
theme very much in the play there’s more
emphasis on the Duke but in the Opera
there’s much more emphasis on the court
jester the Rigoletto and I think to be
honest he’s a more interesting character
at the Duke is very one-dimensional
whereas rigoletto is multifaceted he’s a
father he’s a tortured paranoid
individual capable of great love and
also capable of a great evil and your
old is Rigoletto it isn’t it can you
tell us when you have to do an opera
that’s so well known do you try to make
it your own or do you try to stick to
the original well you do try and make it
your own in the sense that you have your
own interpretation and you try as far as
possible to follow the intentions of the
composer which are very clear in the
score the problem with an opera like
Rigoletto is that there are so many
famous interpretations which stick in
extra high notes they add extra
coloratura which weren’t actually in the
original at verde composed if you don’t
sing in put in certain high notes the
audience are going to feel a little bit
disappointed can you tell us the themes
that we can find in this opera it’s sex
love and death it’s quintessential opera
and the way this is played out it
explores the relationship between
fathers and daughters between a girl at
the start of her adult life if you like
and the power of first love cruelty
sexual license viciousness it’s all
there there is a very famous area which
is la donna e mobile a
can you tell us what importance this has
in this opera it’s a very catchy melody
that the Duke sings at the start of Act
three and it’s the equivalent of a pop
song it’s the equivalent of the Duke
saying this is what I believe any woman
is available I’m a sex god I can have
anybody and very deliberately didn’t
write the music for it but baba
ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba he didn’t write
it down because he didn’t want anybody
to know it before the opera was
premiered and why do you think it’s so
popular today because it’s powerful
music because it’s extremely well
written it’s extremely spare there’s
nothing extraneous and it’s exciting and
moving at the same time and people love
to come to the Opera to be moved and to
be excited and this opera delivers all
of that well thank you is such a
pleasure speaking with you sure
opera is one of history’s most enduring
hi I’m mahalo common and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’ll be learning
more about verdes masterpiece Rigoletto
can you tell us when and who composed
this opera the most famous italian
composer revered throughout Italy Verdi
in the middle of the 19th century and
can you tell us what the plot of the
Opera is a court jester Rigoletto who
has a beautiful daughter that he keeps
locked up the daughter is seduced by the
licentiousness and Rigoletto swears that
he will kill the Duke as punishment for
staining his daughter unfortunately it
all goes wrong the daughter falls in
love with the Duke it’s her first love
and she sacrifices her only love in
place of the Duke can you tell us where
the inspiration for the story came about
Victor Hugo play called the king who
amuses himself which Verde like the
theme very much in the play there’s more
emphasis on the Duke but in the Opera
there’s much more emphasis on the court
jester the Rigoletto and I think to be
honest he’s a more interesting character
at the Duke is very one-dimensional
whereas rigoletto is multifaceted he’s a
father he’s a tortured paranoid
individual capable of great love and
also capable of a great evil and your
old is Rigoletto it isn’t it can you
tell us when you have to do an opera
that’s so well known do you try to make
it your own or do you try to stick to
the original well you do try and make it
your own in the sense that you have your
own interpretation and you try as far as
possible to follow the intentions of the
composer which are very clear in the
score the problem with an opera like
Rigoletto is that there are so many
famous interpretations which stick in
extra high notes they add extra
coloratura which weren’t actually in the
original at verde composed if you don’t
sing in put in certain high notes the
audience are going to feel a little bit
disappointed can you tell us the themes
that we can find in this opera it’s sex
love and death it’s quintessential opera
and the way this is played out it
explores the relationship between
fathers and daughters between a girl at
the start of her adult life if you like
and the power of first love cruelty
sexual license viciousness it’s all
there there is a very famous area which
is la donna e mobile a
can you tell us what importance this has
in this opera it’s a very catchy melody
that the Duke sings at the start of Act
three and it’s the equivalent of a pop
song it’s the equivalent of the Duke
saying this is what I believe any woman
is available I’m a sex god I can have
anybody and very deliberately didn’t
write the music for it but baba
ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba he didn’t write
it down because he didn’t want anybody
to know it before the opera was
premiered and why do you think it’s so
popular today because it’s powerful
music because it’s extremely well
written it’s extremely spare there’s
nothing extraneous and it’s exciting and
moving at the same time and people love
to come to the Opera to be moved and to
be excited and this opera delivers all
of that well thank you is such a
pleasure speaking with you sure
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