In view of the two performances on Friday, January 10 (8:00 PM) and Sunday, January 12 (3:30 PM) of the opera Rigoletto, in the new production co-produced by the OperaLombardia Theatres included in the 2024/2025 Theatre Season, the Donizetti Theatre Foundation promotes a meeting around Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece organized by the Donizetti Studies Center of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation, scheduled for Thursday, January 9 at the “M. Tremaglia” Music Hall of the Donizetti Theatre at 6:00 PM. The meeting, titled Rigoletto and Lucrezia Borgia: Victor Hugo from Donizetti to Verdi, will feature speakers Livio Aragona, Paolo Fabbri, and Candida Mantica from the Donizetti Studies Center of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation. The image repertoire curated by Clelia Epis, Edoardo Cavalli, and Maurizio Merisio, also researchers at the Center, will show how the famous Verdi opera has been staged and interpreted at the Donizetti Theatre in Bergamo. To participate in the meeting, it is necessary to book at the Eventbrite link published on the theatre’s website. Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti and The King Amuses Himself by Victor Hugo, that is Rigoletto: cursed stories in which motherhood and fatherhood redeem sinister characters, morally and perhaps even physically ‘ugly’. Sordid tragedies in which, against all appearances, filial love would make humanity blossom if an adverse Fate did not systematically cut them down with mocking regularity. Such an intense, irregular theatre, cultivating the category of the Ugly, juxtaposing sublimity with wickedness, mixing the tragic and the grotesque, fascinated Felice Romani and Donizetti in 1833. And in 1851, Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi. Once again, Donizetti proves to be a champion of a Theatre of Novelties of the full Nineteenth Century, of which Verdi would take up the baton. LINK FOR RESERVATIONS https://www.eventbrite.it/e/rigoletto-e-lucrezia-borgia-victor-hugo-da-donizetti-a-verdi-tickets-1110165387559?aff=oddtdtcreator
