Deception, betrayal, passion and irony -- Verdi's Rigoletto is about to start at Opera in the Heights. operaheights
Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura conducts a rehearsal with the OH Orchestra and baritone Nathan Matticks in the title role of RigolettoDirector Alyssa Weathersby has been reminding the cast of the Opera in the Heights production of Verdi's classicThe opera begins with the hunchbacked jester Rigoletto hurling insults at the fathers and husbands in the Duke's court and who is, in turn, despised by the men for making a joke of the seduction of their wives and daughters...
In turn, the Duke is an island, Weathersby says, surrounded by noblemen who resent and hate him. Raised in neglect, the Duke"is a source of poison" for everyone he comes in contact with. "Everybody in the show is dealing with hurt in their own way," the director says. "For Gilda we have someone who’s a genuine coloratura soprano. And Catherine [Goode] she really can dazzle and melt hearts with what she can do with the vocal pyrotechnics," he says. .Gilda has this tricky task of making us believe that she would sacrifice her life for someone who has hurt her. But if it's just that she just young and naïve so of course she would do that — well that’s not an interesting portrayal.
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