Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi

Half tragedy, half romantic horror fairy tale, Rigoletto is the fusion of reality and fantasy and thus the ideal material for the internationally sought-after director Philippe Arlaud.

The unique size of the main stage in the St. Margarethen quarry (7 000 m²) makes it possible to tell Verdi's story of Rigoletto in new and previously unknown dimensions. Different worlds collide, intertwine and drift apart in Philippe Arlaud's staging of Verdi's masterpiece. The unscrupulous upper-class of the court is faced with the underworld of Sparafucile, the murderer. Between those two worlds, a delicate drama unfolds between Rigoletto and his daughter Gilda. They are crushed by the opposition between upper and underworld and ultimately meet their tragic destiny. The rugged rocky landscape of the St. Margarethen quarry is the ideal place to create a unique opera panorama of superlatives from images, music and emotions.

Oper im Steinbruch, 2017