Pre-concert talk will start 1 hour before the show.
Andreas Delfs, conductor
Guest Artists
Rigoletto, baritone – Lester Lynch
Gilda, soprano – Raven McMillon
Duca, tenor – Zach Borichevsky
Sparafucile, bass – Burak Bilgili
Maddalena, contralto – Renée Tatum
Monterone, baritone – Nathan Stark
Marullo, baritone – Thomas Dreeze
EASTMAN CAST
Giovanna, mezzo-soprano – Katherine Ciesinski
Count Ceprano, bass – S Joshua Sheppard
Countess Ceprano, mezzo-soprano – Emily Skilling
Matteo Borsa, tenor – Alexander Nick
A Court Usher, bass – S Joshua Sheppard
A Page, mezzo-soprano – Joelle Lachance
VERDI Rigoletto
The RPO’s Opera Concert brings drama, orchestral excellence, and world-class singing to the stage of Kodak Hall with Verdi’s Rigoletto. Considered a masterwork of the operatic genre, Rigoletto tells the tragic story of the Duke of Mantua, his court jester, Rigoletto, and Rigoletto’s daughter, Gilda. The opera was originally titled La maledizione, or The Curse, referencing a curse placed on Rigoletto and the Duke – thus the tragedy unfolds.