Rigoletto

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Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist
Francesco Maria Piave
Based On

the play "Le Roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1940
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Gennaro Papi
Stage Director(s)
Herbert Graf
Chorus Master
William Tyroler
Incidental Dances by
Willam Christensen

Cast

Rigoletto, a hunchback, jester to the Duke
Robert Weede
Gilda, his daughter
Lily Pons
Duke of Mantua, a titled profligate
Francisco Naya
Sparafucile, a hired assassin
Lorenzo Alvary
Maddalena, his sister
Alice Avakian
Count Monterone
Charles Shiffeler
Count Ceprano
Edward Wellman
Borsa
Alessio De Paolis
Marullo
George Cehanovsky
Countess Ceprano
Edith Wishart Walther
Giovanna
Thelma Votipka
Page
Kathleen Lawlor

Show Dates

Time and Place

Sixteenth Century; Mantua and Vicinity

Scenes

Act I -- Ballroom in the Duke's Palace
Act II -- A Street outside Rigoletto's House
Act III -- Hall in the Duke's Palace
Act IV -- Ruined Inn in a Lonely Spot -- Sparafucile's Home

Media

Dancers