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Rigoletto Bregenz 2019 Stoyanov Costello Petit
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Rigoletto
- Composer: Verdi Giuseppe
- Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Seebühne, Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz, Austria
- Recorded: July 19, 2017
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Stephen Costello, Vladimir Stoyanov, Mélissa Petit, Miklós Sebestyén, Katrin Wundsam, Kostas Smoriginas, Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger
- Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
- Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker
- Chorus: Prager Philharmonischer Chor
- Chorus Master: Lukáš Vasilek
- Stage Director: Philipp Stölzl
- Stage Designer: Philipp Stölzl
- Costume Designer: Kathi Maurer
- Lighting Designer: Philipp Stölzl
Just saw this Rigoletto on television, the cast is good to very good overall; the Gilda and the Maddalena are both very good, the men adequate (Rigoletto) to good (Sparafucile and the Duke). The mise en scène has a number of interesting ideas but in the end did not wholly convince me; I found the concept of the Mantua Court as a circus just silly and typical of regietheater stances that miss the point in its obsession with originality. The stage wizardry was thereby uderutilised and uderdeveloped. I also found Mazzola’s tempi unneccessarily fast, the score definitely benefits significantly from slower ones.