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''[[Rigoletto]]'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi ()[].
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==The original text==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Based on the play ''[[Le Roi S'Amuse]]'' by Victor Hugo (), the opera was originally called ''[[La Maledizione]]'' ("The Curse"), with an Italian libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave ()[]. It tells the tragic story of the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda.
 
 
 
The opera's was originally called ''[[La Maledizione]]'' ("The Curse"), and refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto's encouragement.
 
 
 
Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the Verdi opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
 
 
A number of film versions have been made, including ''Rigoletto'' (1918),
 
''Rigoletto e la sua tragedia'' (1956), ''Rigoletto'' (1982), ''Rigoletto''  (1993) and ''Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story'' (2005). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoletto.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
1893-4: Performed  by the [[Lyric Opera Company]] on tour in South Africa, including performances in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205
 
 
 
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