Rigoletto on the Lake

Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece, Rigoletto, was performed for the first time at the summer festival in Bregenz, Austria. One of Verdi's most popular works, this beautiful performance of Rigoletto is an unforgettable combination of entertainment and emotional intensity from the spectacular open-air shore of Lake Constance, Bregenz.

Bregenz Festival 2019
Opera in three acts (1851)
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Adapted from Victor Hugo's Le Roi s’amuse (1832)
Music director: Enrique Mazzola
Stage director/Lighting designer: Philipp Stölzl
Stage designers: Philipp Stölzl, Heike Vollmer
Costume designer: Kathi Maurer
Assistant stage director: Philipp Krenn
Sound designers: Gernot Gögele | Alwin Bösch
Choral director Lukáš Vasilek | Benjamin Lack
Dramaturg Olaf A. Schmitt

Duca: Stephen Costello
Rigoletto: Vladimir Stoyanov
Gilda: Mélissa Petit
Sparafucile: Miklós Sebestyén
Maddalena / Giovanna: Katrin Wundsam
Monterone: Kostas Smoriginas
Marullo: Wolfgang Stefan Schwaiger
Borsa: Paul Schweinester
Ceprano: Jorge Eleazar
Contessa: Leonie Renaud
Paggio: Hyunduk Kim

Wiener Symphoniker
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Bregenz Festival Chorus
Stage Music in cooperation with the Vorarlberg Conservatory of the Wiener Philharmoniker