Verdi: Rigoletto / Met Hd, Damrau, Beczala

Piotr Beczala (Il Duca), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda), Oksana Volkova (Maddalena), Stefan Kocan (Sparafucile) The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, Michele Mariotti (conductor) & Michael Mayer (director)

The sought-after lyric tenor Piotr Beczala, is the womanizing Duke in this new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto from the Metropolitan Opera. Željko Luèiæ sings the title role and Diana Damrau sings Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda. This DVD and Blu-ray release appears in the Verdi year 2013, as music lovers around the world celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Italy’s beloved composer. Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960 – an ideal setting for this eternal conflict of depravity and innocence.

Price: $28.98