Now in a stunning production Verdi’s masterpiece mesmerized the Lyric Opera audience to rise up in an extravagant ovation that seemed to go on forever. He got past the censors by substituting a Duke for a King, utilized a deformed hunchback (who seems a buffoon, but whose inner life is heartfelt), composed a glorious aria “La donna é mobile” (“Woman is fickle”) for the Duke, -and fortunately for opera lovers-the censors gave in, and Rigoletto became a huge hit. īut the Italian composer wasn’t going to let anyone get in the way of what he believed to be a superb idea. But because the King was depicted as an immoral womanizer, the Austrian Board of Censors (which controlled much of Northern Italy at the time) banned Verdi’s initial work. After all, the five-act work had sex, passion, murder, curses, and tragedy-all the larger-than-life stuff of dramatic opera. When Giuseppe Verdi came upon Le roi s’amuse, French novelist Victor Hugo’s play, he was enchanted by the drama’s moral conflict and fascinating characters, which he believed would make for great opera. Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair Jane Austen's England-200 Years of Pride and Prejudice In the Footsteps of the French Revolution Surreal Spain: On the Trail of Slavador Dali Stars on the Red Carpet-Chicago International Film Festival Lighting Up Chicago Stages-Fall Theater 2014ġ3 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
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