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Rigoletto is an opera in three acts [a] by Giuseppe Verdi.The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
By the time of his death, Gobbi had appeared in some 25 films, in both singing and speaking parts. Beginning in the 1940s, Gobbi provided the singing voice for Anthony Quinn as Alfio in the film Cavalleria rusticana (1953), as well as the voice of the title character in the 1957 film Rigoletto e la sua tragedia.
Karl Gustaf Ingvar Wixell [1] (7 May 1931 [2] – 8 October 2011) was a Swedish baritone who had an active international career in operas and concerts from 1955 to 2003. He mostly sang roles from the Italian repertory, and, according to The New York Times, "was best known for his steady-toned, riveting portrayals of the major baritone roles of Giuseppe Verdi — among them Rigoletto, Simon ...
His works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment and slavery.
Enrico Caruso (/ k ə ˈ r uː z oʊ /, [1] US also / k ə ˈ r uː s oʊ /, [2] [3] [4] Italian: [enˈriːko kaˈruːzo]; 25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, arrives for a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in ...
Triboulet appears as a character in the Victor Hugo play Le roi s'amuse, and in the Verdi opera inspired by the play, Rigoletto. [6] [7] [8] Triboulet appears as a character in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. [9] François I er et Triboulet (The King and the Jester) is a surviving 1907 short film by Georges Méliès.
A new study, which appears in Nature Medicine, has identified a biomarker that may eventually allow doctors to spot the early signs of protein buildup before it causes significant damage.