[Met Performance] CID:259890



Rigoletto
Metropolitan Opera House, Tue, December 18, 1979

Debut : Mariella Devia




Rigoletto (569)
Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave
Rigoletto
Sherrill Milnes

Gilda
Mariella Devia [Debut]

Duke of Mantua
Neil Shicoff

Maddalena
Isola Jones

Sparafucile
Jerome Hines

Monterone
Julien Robbins

Borsa
Charles Anthony

Marullo
Robert Goodloe

Count Ceprano
Philip Booth

Countess Ceprano
Loretta Di Franco

Giovanna
Ariel Bybee

Page
Nadyne Brewer

Guard
Domenico Simeone


Conductor
Michelangelo Veltri


Production
John Dexter

Designer
Tanya Moiseiwitsch

Lighting Designer
Gil Wechsler

Choreographer
Norbert Vesak





Rigoletto received fourteen performances this season.

Review 1:

Review of Robert Jacobson in the March 8, 1980 issue of Opera News

"Rigoletto" returned December 18, providing a showcase for a new Gilda in the person of Mariella Devia, whose childlike soprano, impressive vocal technique and clean, unmannered style made her a joy. She recalled the Lily Pons nightingale variety of Gilda, her tone a bit glassy and with an edge but, at the same time, gifted with rare refinement and delicacy, while her acting had similar simplicity and appeal. Neil Shicoff's tenor has gained in weight and variety as the Duke, and Sherrill Milnes was in resplendent, expansive voice as the jester. Michelangelo Veltri led a safe, sound reading, rhythmically unobtrusive but lacking imagination.



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