#rigoletto
Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lirico: Serata di Gala in onore di Giusy Devinu.
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My Blades in the Dark character, Rigoletto. He’s a Quasimodo/Phantom of the Opera type of guy. A gentleman thief with a good heart and a passion for painting.
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actually i was gonna write a long ass thing about why rigoletto isnt strictly a revenge story or even about Revenge Bad (although there are obvious shades of it) but then i realized nobody wants to see me rambling incoherently on that for like 2 hours so. long and short of it: the revenge plots in rigoletto- monterone’s ”curse”, the ceprano plot, and of course rigoletto’s hit on the duke- all exist to show different facets of rigoletto’s simultaneous hatred for society and desire to be accepted as part of it. the former two show that rigoletto’s attempts to fit in make him a worse person yet at the same time being an outsider is something Dangerous to Be, and the latter shows rigoletto is incapable of bringing the society that excludes him down on an equal playing field. the revenge plots work to highlight that instead of the other way around, and ultimately rigoletto is a story about what it is to be an outsider and not necessarily a revenge parable
TLDR rigoletto is about what its like to be a bullied school student trying to be the comic relief in an attempt to “fit in” with their bullies (even though they dont like said bullies) because they’re desperate to just be considered, but said attempts fail anyway because no matter what there’s something intrinsic about them that will forever distinguish them as an outcast. Wow what a cool thing that has never happened to me and that I cant relate to whatsoever
Mattiwilda Dobbs (b. 1925) is an American opera singer, one of the first African Americans to achieve international acclaim in the art form. After winning an international competition in Geneva, Switzerland, the Spelman graduate launched a career that took her across Europe. In 1953, she became the first African American women to sing at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy.
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Angelo Santini and Elvira Tetrazzini sing Rigoletto(1904)
Born in 1867, Elvira Tetrazzini was one of Luisa Tetrazzini’s two older sisters. All three sisters sang professionally; born in 1862, Eva Tetrazzini had a successful international career, although she has been eclipsed in the meantime by her more famous sibling.
Lawrence Tibbett and Lily Pons sing Rigoletto(1935)
