About the opera
- Run time: 2hrs 40min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: Italian
- Surtitles: English
- Opera house: Teatro La Fenice
Rigoletto was the opera that founded Verdi's international reputation: within ten years it had been staged in some 250 opera houses around the world. The catchy tenor aria, "La Donna è mobile", certainly helped spread its fame, but it is also sustained by a daring plot, one that Venetian censors only accepted after two revisions. The story, based on a controversial play by Victor Hugo, tells of an outsider—a hunchbacked jester—who struggles to balance the dueling elements of beauty and evil that exist in his life. Written during the most fertile period of Verdi’s artistic life, the opera resonates with a universality that is frequently called Shakespearean.
Ticket information
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Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Address:
Campo San Fantin, 1965, 30124 Venice
How to get there:
from Tronchetto: line 2 direction/via Rialto bridge, St Mark, Lido
from Piazzale Roma, Ferrovia: line 1 or 2 direction/via Rialto bridge, St Mark Lido
Stops: Line 1 - Rialto bridge, St Angel, St Samuel or St Mark (Vallaresso)
Line 2 - Rialto bridge or St Mark (Vallaresso)
