One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions, commanding American baritone Quinn Kelsey gives a searing portrayal of the title character, a deformed court jester determined to protect the virtue of his daughter, Gilda, sung by radiant soprano Rosa Feola. His debauched employer, the Duke of Mantua, is tenor Piotr Beczała, with dynamic young maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium to lead a cast that also features bass Andrea Mastroni as the assassin Sparafucile and mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena.

Bartlett Shers kühne neue Interpretation von Verdis zeitloser Tragödie kommt am 29. Januar in die Kinos. Der mit dem Tony Award ausgezeichnete Regisseur setzt die Handlung der Oper im Europa der 1920er Jahre zurück, mit Art-Deco-Sets von Michael Yeargan und eleganten Kostümen von Catherine Zuber, die selbst zusammen 11 Tony Auszeichnungen. Bariton Quinn Kelsey, ein souveräner Künstler auf dem Höhepunkt seines Könnens, bringt seine glühende Darstellung der Titelrolle zum ersten Mal an die Met, neben der Sopranistin Rosa Feola als Gilda und dem Tenor Piotr Beczała als Herzog von Mantua, mit führendem Maestro Daniele Rustioni auf dem Podium. Diese Live-Kinoübertragung ist Teil der preisgekrönten Live in HD-Serie der Met, die Oper in Kinos auf der ganzen Welt bringt.

토니상 수상자인 연출가 바틀렛 셰어는 베르디의 영원한 명작 비극인 이 작품을 과감한 시선으로 새롭게 연출했다. 1920년대 유럽을 배경으로 마이클 예건의 아르데코 무대 연출과 캐터린 주버의 의상이 빛을 발한다. 바리톤 퀸 켈시는 메트 무대에 타이틀 롤로는 처음 등판해, 온몸을 던져 고통에 찬 리골레토를 그려낸다. 질다 역은 로사 페올라가 맡았으며 테너 표트르 베찰라가 만토바 공작으로 출연한다. 지휘는 다니엘레 루스티오니가 맡았다.