Rigoletto

Rigoletto is the joker in a society addicted to pleasure. No joke is too tasteless for him, no punchline too biting. In public, he plays the role of the comic outsider to perfection. Behind the smiling mask, however, a father emerges who is overanxious and closes himself and his daughter Gilda off from the world. But then Gilda meets the charming Duke and realizes that the security of her father's seclusion is nothing compared to love and freedom. She wants to live her love - even at the cost of death. With "Rigoletto" in 1851, Giuseppe Verdi created a work that is everything: Italian opera, psychological drama, great music and real theater.