Opera in Cinema: RIGOLETTO

The love between a deformed and ridiculed court
jester, Rigoletto, and his daughter Gilda, is pushed to the limit in
Verdi’s dark tale of betrayal and vengeance.

In honor of Verdi’s bicentennial, director
Enrico Castiglione sends the audience on a dramatic journey of
passionate love and sacrifice, set on the stunningly beautiful open-air
stage in Taormina, Sicily. With a score much loved for such arias as ‘La
donna e mobile’ sung by the womanizing Duke and the virtuosic ‘Caro
nome’ performed by the innocent Gilda, Rigoletto is considered one of
the greatest operatic masterpieces.

Performed in Taormina, Italy