From Scores Unstitched.
Some operas have content that make them a *little* uncomfortable for modern audiences. So get ready to cringe and let’s dive into one of the most bafflingly popular operas in today’s modern world: Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto”. 🤡🗝️👑
🔗 L I N K S
👉 Me singing “Caro nome”, if that levitates your seaworthy vessel: https://youtu.be/7vClt4swlRs
👉 FREE ‘Rigoletto’ Opera Scorecard: https://scoresunstitched.com
🎧 M U S I C
All recordings of Rigoletto are clipped from this fantastically ‘80s movie adaptation performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_4xDA2w0A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDI6MWkCW8&t=6368s)
Epidemic Sound:
”The Royal Gardens” by Sinfonietta Cinematica
”Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 ‘Winter’: II. Largo” by Michelle Ross, Eric Jacobsen, Odyssey Orchestra
“Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488: I. Allegro” by Mira Ma, Eric Jacobsen, Odyssey Orchestra
“La Donna È Mobile (Version 2)” by Anonymous
YouTube Music Library:
”Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” by Kevin MacLeod
IMSLP (Public Domain):
“Le carnaval des animaux” by Camille Saint-Saëns and Seattle Youth Symphony / Vilem Sokol
“Scène et Air de Gilda ‘Carlo Maldé’” by Giuseppe Verdi and Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Paris, dir. Pierre Dervaux
“Rigoletto” Complete Recording by Giuseppe Verdi and Teatro alla Scala (orchestra and chorus)
📺 S H O R T F O R M
Instagram:
/cait_frizzie
🔗 M O R E
Podcast: “Never Heard I Ever”, where I get exposed by a radio DJ to all the “normal” music I’ve never heard.
👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJn_rewgi3lbaWhFZKYumKh1CO-ksrQ2S
TIMELINE
0:00 Intro
0:34 Disclaimer
0:44 Quick plot overview (no spoilers)
2:12 Disability and the treatment thereof
4:32 The very…slow…pacing
6:24 The tropes (bring a frikkin flask)
8:00 Verdi and Rigoletto
10:41 What to expect at the opera house
11:50 The Count & La donna è mobile
17:42 Gilda & Caro nome
22:28 The "curse’ motif
24:10 The storm (the coolest music in the opera?)
