A deformed jester, an innocent daughter, an impossible love... and irreversible revenge. A curse hangs over Rigoletto, the jester who laughs at the pain of others.
The Duke of Mantua, a cunning seducer, and the siblings Sparafucile and Maddalena complete an intrigue of blood, deceit and illusion: every laugh hides a tear, and the grotesqueness of the human condition emerges in all the intensity of Verdi's opera.
Rigoletto remains a powerful critique of its time and of our own. The story of the court jester who mocks others while hiding his daughter to protect her from a corrupt world reflects the cruelty of power, the falseness of appearances and the tragic cyclical nature of human evil. His revenge, which backfires on him, becomes an emblem of man's universal condemnation in the face of fate and injustice.
Amidst passions, guilt and disillusionment, Rigoletto is still a social critique disguised as a personal drama: a desperate cry that spans the centuries and speaks, with starkness, to our own era.