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MET Opera: Rigoletto

                GENRE: 
                Opera                                                                                               
             
             RATING:                                                          
             NR
              
             RUNNING TIME:
             3:30      
              
             RELEASE DATE:
             02/16/2013
             
             STARRING:
             Diana Damrau, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczala                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
             
             DIRECTOR:
             Michele Mariotti                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
             
             PRODUCER(S):
             Michael Mayer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
             
             WRITER(S):
             Giuseppe Verdi

MOVIE SYNOPSIS

Rising Italian conductor Michele Mariotti leads the new production premiere of Rigoletto, seen in a new staging by the Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer in his Met debut. Mayer’s approach transports the story from 16th-century Italy to Las Vegas in 1960, with a cast led by Željko Lucic in the title role, Diana Damrau as his daughter, Gilda, Piotr Beczala as the Duke of Mantua, Štefan Kocán as the assassin Sparafucile, and Oksana Volkova in her Met debut as Sparafucile’s seductive sister, Maddalena. “I’ve tried to imagine a recent world that captures the decadence of the Duke’s palace, where the participants are in pursuit of power, money, and beauty,” Mayer says. “Las Vegas in the ‘60s is such a world, where a kind of prankster energy could go bad—it’s the epitome of the kinds of events that happen in Rigoletto.”