Performances
Opera
Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
From 7 to 28 October 2025
| 2 hours and 38 minutes circa intermission included | |
Opera in three acts Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala Production |
| Conductor | MARCO ARMILIATO |
|---|---|
| Staging | MARIO MARTONE |
| Sets | MARGHERITA PALLI |
| Costumes | URSULA PATZAK |
| Lights | PASQUALE MARI |
| Choreography | DANIELA SCHIAVONE |
Cast
| Il Duca di Mantova | Galeano Salas (7, 10, 13, 16, 22 and 28 Oct.); Davide Giusti (25 Oct.) |
| Rigoletto | Amartuvshin Enkhbat |
| Gilda | Regula Mühlemann (7, 10, 13, 16, 22 Oct.) Francesca Pia Vitale (25, 28 Oct.) |
| Sparafucile | Gianluca Buratto |
| Maddalena | Martina Belli |
| Giovanna | Carlotta Vichi |
| Il Conte di Monterone | Fabrizio Beggi |
| Marullo | Wonjun Jo* |
| Matteo Borsa | Pierluigi D'Aloia |
| Il Conte di Ceprano | Xhieldo Hyseni* |
| La Contessa | Désirée Giove |
| Usciere di corte | Corrado Cappitta |
| Paggio della Duchessa | María Martín Campos* |
*Lyric Opera soloists of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
Due to the persistence of an illness, Dmitry Korchak has to withdraw from the performances of Rigoletto on 22, 25 and 28 October. The role of the Duke of Mantua will be performed by Galeano Salas on 22 and 28 October and by Davide Giusti on 25 October.
In brief
The production of Rigoletto envisioned by Mario Martone in 2022 tended to tap into the violence that Verdi had in mind when transposing the intricate affair imagined by Victor Hugo into music. The figure of the deformed jester caught between the brutal jeers of the noble court and the fatherly love for his daughter, mixing tenderness with a desire for control, stands at the interface between the sumptuousness of the Duke’s residence and the degraded realm of the dispossessed: contrasting faces of the splendid rotating stage set designed by Margherita Palli. These unmediated social poles are the realm of an inevitable but blinded revolt, not unlike that in Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite. The opera is newly staged with a splendid cast in the care of Marco Armiliato.
2 hours and 38 minutes circa intermission includedFIRST ACT 60’
Intermission
25’
SECOND ACT 33’
Set change
5’
THIRD ACT 35’
End
