Re: Villazon Rigoletto / Equal rights for hunchbacks???

This is the question I am trying to get at - and I am not sure how the
original source material, to the extent it's ever worth anything, throws
light on this. If we accept that Verdi often identified with the fathers in
his operas (not always, of course), it's a very interesting work for him to
have decided to adapt, and maybe shows another element of what he was
thinking about himself. I think that the bond between Rigoletto and Gilda is
certainly psychologically incestuous, from Rigoletto's side, and were I
given the chance to direct Rigoletto, I'd be clear in the action just how
intense the physicality of that was in the Si Vendetta.


"Hans Christian Hoff" <hchoff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I think that Rigoletto's tragedy is that he is an ordinary decent man,
> not allowed to behave as such by the circumstances. Then, don't we all
> from time to time experience to be hampered by the limitations of
> background, professional conventions and inherited mores ?
>
> Regards
>
> Hans
>
> Regards
>
> Hans


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