Show I Verdis Verdis Rigoletto of or Verdis is laid in Italy The Thc Duke of Mantua young ouner brave handsome and fascinating is aided and ond abetted in his Ills fearful career car carter er of vice by his hunchback jester jest r Rigoletto In the opening they the are arc Jesting of their latest victims the wife of Count Ceprano and the daughter of Count Both injured men swear vengeance but when Count Monterone forces an entrance Into the castle the Jester mimicking his master scorns and insults the old no ble who Is seized and dragged off oft to prison Before leaving he lie calls call down a fearful curse upon Rigoletto The cou g tiers disgusted with conduct plan a fearful punishment for him They Th y to secure for or the duke whom they believe bell mistress but who Is really his Ns idolized daughter whom he has hall tried in every way wa to shield from the world The duke has followed her home from church and gained her love pretending to be r c poor student Tho duke and courtiers courtier leading the Jester to fo believe they re ro abducting Ceprano s a wife wICe induce him to assist in carrying camin I away his Jila own daughter Wild lid with rage rag I I whey wh 1 he lie discovers how Ilo he has been dupe dUP he ho hires a professional in to kill the duke uses hK M beautiful sister Maddalena to lure the duke to his hla house hous but she is charmed bv by b him d bS bega be 3 her h er brother for his hf The assam agrees to kill the first per person person son lIon who comes to the th door in his place pIa ct Gilda Gilds disguised ls as a boy bo is brought hero hera by her father to prove proe to her that her bel lover loer is faithless Hearing the plot to kill the duke who is ia sleeping here she rushes in to warn him and is stabbed as I she opens the door gives given a body in a asack asack J sack He lie lp It the duke is 15 about to throw it in the river when he hears hear the duke duko singing as he lie passes by b Open Opening OpenIng ing In the HIP sack he sees es s the hOdy bOr of ot his own daughter curse has lias been b fulfilled ful filled TiM Tw music mule is full foil of b baut power and an charm harm and th tb famous quartet one of o othe the most perfect Ie ies of or ensemble music mu ever written I |