Jean-Pierre Ponnelle: Rigoletto

Жан-Пьер Поннель: Риголетто

Renaissance Italy has never been portrayed more opulently and more realistically than in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's film of Verdi's "Rigoletto", the composer's first true masterwork for the stage. Towering over the production is Luciano Pavarotti as the cynical, dissolute Duke of Mantua, one of the famed tenor's greatest vocal and dramatic roles. Rigoletto is magnificently portrayed by the Swedish baritone Ingvar Wixell. His beautiful daughter Gilda is interpreted by Edita Gruberova, one of the leading coloratura sopranos of our time.

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Actors

The Duke of Mantua

Luciano Pavarotti

Rigoletto

Ingvar Wixell

Gilda

Edita Gruberová

Sparafucile

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Giovanna

Fedora Barbieri

Wiener Philharmoniker

Crew

Director

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Conductor

Riccardo Chailly

Set designer

Gianni Quaranta

Costume designer

Martin Schlumpf

About

Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, "whose stage and television work has brought a new and grandly colorful vitality to opera interpretation" (The New York Times), acclaimed Italian cameraman Pasqualino de Santis (Death in Venice) and architect Gianni Quaranta have created a spellbindingly unique atmosphere. The drama unfolds with a powerful authenticity highlighted by the historic locations in which it was filmed: Parma's Teatro Farnese of 1628, Mantua's Palazzo Te, famed for its frescoes by Giulio Romano, and the Palladian-style Teatro Olimpico in Sabbioneta.

Riccardo Chailly's vibrant interpretation of Verdi's score, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra responding magnificently to his conducting, is a perfect complement to Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's high-intensity retelling of the drama.

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Language

Italian

Runtime

1 hour 58 minutes

1982

18+

Schedule

16 March / Monday

19:30

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle: Rigoletto

Language: Italian, russian subtitles

Introduction: Ekaterina Mukovozchik

Illuzion Cinema

Kotelnicheskaya Emb., 1/15

1200 ₽

23 March / Monday

19:30

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle: Rigoletto

Language: Italian, russian subtitles

KARO 10 Schuka

Schukinskaya St, 42, Schuka SC

1210 ₽

29 March / Sunday

15:00

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle: Rigoletto

Language: Italian, russian subtitles

CINEMA PARK Schelkovsky

Shchelkovskoe Hwy, 75

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