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Rigoletto

Rigoletto

2017
Music

An outsider—a hunchbacked jester—struggles to balance the dueling elements of beauty and evil that exist in his life.

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IT

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Cast

Celso Albelo

Duke of Mantua

Ambrogio Maestri

Ambrogio Maestri

Rigoletto

Aleksandra Kurzak

Aleksandra Kurzak

Gilda

Margaret Plummer

Margaret Plummer

Giovanna

Alexandru Moisiuc

Monterone

Manuel Walser

Marullo

Clemens Unterreiner

Count Ceprano

Lydia Rathkolb

Countess Ceprano

Michele Pertusi

Michele Pertusi

Sparafucile

Elena Maximova

Maddalena

Carlos Osuna

Borsa

Andrea Carroll

A page

Michael Wilder

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