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After recieving many requests for the songs from our beloved Rigoletto, I have finally allowed my boredom to get the better of me and have sat down to not only put the songs up, but the lyrics as well. Timing may be a LITTLE off on some of them, but here they are. :/
The Curse (c) Rigoletto and it's creators (more)
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This is the glorious quartet...
Duke--Luciano Pavarotti
Gilda--Joan Sutherland
Rigoletto--Leo Nucci
Maddalena--Isola Jones
Please! Just listen to the music.. don´t put attention in Isola´s... you know..."personality"
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Act 2 - Placido Domingo as Il Duca di Mantova in the 1977 Met production of Verdi's Rigoletto. The Duke has discovered that Gilda has been abducted. In genuine despair he longs to find and comfort her
Conductor: James Levine
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Pianist: Yundi Li plays Liszt's piano reduction of Verdi's "Rigoletto" Opera Fantasy, an Oriental piece by composer Wang titled "Sunflower" and finally another Liszt, the 3rd Etude based on a variation of a theme of Paganini, "La Campanella" in B minor S. 141.
Composed 1838, revised 1851. Liszt was 27 when he composed this piece.