Rigoletto, ou, Le bouffon du prince
Subtitle: opéra en quatre actes
By: musique de G[iuseppe] Verdi ; traduction française d'Edouard Duprez
Contributors: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885; Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876, librettist; Duprez, Edouard, tr; Carleton, H. M., former owner; Théâtre lyrique (Paris, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Edition: Nouvelle édition.
Publisher: Calmann-Lévy
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Bouffon du prince
Work titles: Rigoletto
Notes: Original Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse; first performed in Venice at the Teatro la Fenice; first performed with this translation in Brussels, 28 November 1858. Cf. Loewenberg.

Edition statement from cover.

"Représenté pour la première fois, à Paris, sur le Théatre-Lyrique le 24 décembre 1863"--Half title.

"Personnages"--T.p. verso; includes performers.

Includes publisher's advertisements on back cover.

Loewenberg, A.  Annals of opera, col. 890

French words, after the original Italian.