Verdi: Rigoletto

Bregenzer Festspiele

Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena)

Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Bregenz Festival Chorus, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl

The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: 751608
Label: C Major

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March 2020

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Verdi: Rigoletto

Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena)
Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Bregenz Festival Chorus
Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl

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Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Rigoletto compelling, blood-curdling and beautiful is being performed for the first time on the Bregenz lake stage. The stage director and designer Philipp Stölzl, known for his successful productions at Salzburg Festival as well as music videos for the German band Rammstein, highlights the striking contrasts between spectacle and intimate chamber drama in his production of Verdi's opera. 'Breath-taking, tight and thrilling arrangement, extremely beautiful. Philipp Stölzl delivers a superlative Rigoletto to Bregenz lake stage' - Frankfurter Rundschau Online. 'The performance of the three main characters has been outstanding' - Der Standard Online. 'Rigoletto becomes a Hollywood spectacle on Lake Constance' - Handelsblatt. 'Nothing but a sensation' - SWR

NTCS: 16:92

Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese (bonus features subtitles in German and English)

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March 2020

The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque spectacle comes at a price, however, and that is emotional impact. Stephen Costello as the Duke and Melissa Petti (a young singer to listen out for) as Gilda are both extremely easy on the ear: well-matched in vocal agility and timbre, Unfortunately, coping with the physical demands of the set rather puts paid to any sort of convincing romantic connection between the two.

March 2020

It’s perhaps inevitable that in an openair venue such as Bregenz – essentially arena opera with an audience of 7000 – the emphasis has to be on a spectacular production. But it would be wrong to overshadow the singers here, who do an amazing job under such physically demanding conditions. Vladimir Stoyanov is excellent as Rigoletto, his oaky baritone not unlike the great Leo Nucci… A most enjoyable production and performance, even if clowns do give you the heebie-jeebies.

March 2020

An unusual but gripping version of a favourite opera, musically first-rate and with eye-opening staging.

Opera Now January 2020

Vladimir Stoyanov’s Rigoletto is wonderfully played, moving in the extreme, and beautifully sung. His baritone offers golden tone and legato that also remind one of singers of yore. Enrique Mazzola’s conducting is pacey and confident

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