Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi sends his protagonist Rigoletto on an emotional rollercoaster ride between feigned hilarity, honest fatherly love and human abysses. Director Ute M. Engelhardt looks behind the facade of the joker and into the maw of the brutalized society in which the title hero moves. On the podium: chief conductor Vassilis Christopoulos, who is once again devoting himself to a Verdi opera after his gripping interpretation of Macbeth.

To satisfy his lust, the Duke of Mantua constantly has his servants bring him new wives. Rigoletto, the court jester, is also part of this misogynistic system. After the loss of his wife, he reacts to the world with biting derision
. He lives solely for his daughter Gilda, whom he hides from society in order to protect her from the Duke’s grasp. In vain!
Gilda falls in love with the Duke, and Rigoletto contributes to Gilda’s abduction without realizing that it is his own daughter. When he realizes what has happened, the wounded father has only one thing on his mind: revenge! …