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Rigoletto
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Melodrama in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
from the play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo
The Duke of Mantua Marco Ciaponi
Rigoletto Amartuvshin Enkhbat
Gilda Federica Guida
Sparafucile Mattia Denti
Maddalena Rossana Rinaldi
Giovanna Elena Borin
Count of Monterone Christian Barone
Marullo Stefano Marchisio
Matteo Borsa Andrea Galli
Count of Ceprano Juliusz Loranzi
Countess of Ceprano Emanuela Sgarlata
A Page Agnes Sipos
An Usher Lorenzo Sivelli
Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Director Leo Nucci
Sets Carlo Centolavigna
Costumes Artemio Cabassi
Lighting Michele Cremona
ITALIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
CHORUS OF THE MUNICIPAL THEATER OF PIACENZA
Chorus Master Corrado Casati
NEW PRODUCTION
in co-production with Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
It is the first of the three Verdi titles scheduled during the Municipal Season, to celebrate the 210th anniversary of the Maestro’s birth in 2023. Rigoletto is entrusted to an exceptional director, Leo Nucci, a reference interpreter of the role throughout his extraordinary career, who returns to engage with this opera as a director: “Having sung it on stage 550 times in official performances plus 89 public rehearsals, with the four-hundredth right here in Piacenza – recalls the famous baritone – this time I try to tell it as if I were in front of the mirror, to myself.”
On the podium is maestro Francesco Ivan Ciampa, regularly invited to conduct in major theaters, leading the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Choir of the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, prepared by Corrado Casati.
In the title role is Amartuvshin Enkhbat, already highly appreciated in important theaters and at the Municipale di Piacenza in Tosca in 2019, who stood out for the beauty of his timbre and the accuracy of his phrasing and has been described as a baritone with a voice from another era. Accompanying him will be Gilda, interpreted by Federica Guida, a rising young soprano already featured at the Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, and Teatro Massimo di Palermo, along with the Duke of Mantua played by Marco Ciaponi, an internationally acclaimed tenor, already applauded in Piacenza, where as a young man he participated in the Opera Laboratory project with Leo Nucci and was the winner of the “Flaviano Labò” Competition.
The creative team returns to the Municipale, consisting of assistant director Salvo Piro, set designer Carlo Centolavigna, Artemio Cabassi for costumes, and lighting by Michele Cremona.
It is also worth noting that the production of Rigoletto is attentive to the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda, thanks to the great work of the technical team at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, which has given new life to sets and props, with a focus on reusing scenic materials.
The opera is co-produced by Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza and Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
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MUNICIPAL THEATRE OF PIACENZA
A splendid example of late 18th-century architecture, Piacenza’s Municipal Theater was inaugurated on September 10, 1804, with Zamori, or Hero of the Indies, a dramma serio for music by Giovanni Simone Mayr, a Bavarian musician who was Gaetano Donizetti’s teacher and who lived for a long time in Bergamo.
Construction of the theater, designed by Piacenza architect Lotario Tomba (author, among other things, of the Governor’s Palace in Piazza Cavalli) began in September 1803 and was completed the following year.
Piacenza was the first city in Emilia to have a new, modernly conceived, capacious and, above all, beautiful theater; Parma would have it in 1829, Modena in 1838, Reggio Emilia in 1857.
