Grand Opera Librettos
Subtitle: Rigoletto, Italian And English Text And Music of the Principal Airs
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781417990863
Subjects: Musical scores, lyrics & libretti; Opera; Genres & Styles - Opera; Music/Songbooks; Music
First sentence: RIGOLETTO, a hunchback buffoon, or jester to the libertime Duke of Mantua, and willing pander to his licentious habits, has by his ribald and unfeeling jests, together with his villanous connivance at the Duke's open disdain for all considerations of honor, rendered himself highly objectionable to the courtiers, particularly the Courts of Ceprano and Monterone, whose wife and daughter respectively have become victims to the unbridled passions of the Duke.