A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Rigoletto

by George Grove

RIGOLETTO. An opera in 3 acts; libretto by Piave (founded on V. Hugo's 'Le Roi's'amuse'), music by Verdi. Produced at the Teatro Fenice, Venice, March 11, 1851, and given in Italian at Covent Garden, May 14, 1853, and at the Italiens, Paris, Jan. 19, 1857.

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