Rigoletto - Opera in Four Acts, Libretto

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By -- Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto by -- Francesco Maria Piave, Based on a play by -- Victor Hugo

Published by -- Program Publishing Co., [19--?], New York, Staple-Bound, Text in Italian and English on 18 Facing Pages, 10" X 7" X .12", 4 oz.

[WIKIPEDIA]

"Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. (...) The work, Verdi's sixteenth in the genre, is widely considered to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career. Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from the assassin hired by her father."

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