Rigoletto

Rigoletto is an opera in four acts with a score by Giuseppe Verdi and a libretto by Francesco Piave based upon Victor Hugo ’s Le Roi s’amuse (1832), a fact that made the censors condemn the work until the French king François Ier in the drama was changed into the Italian duke of Mantua. Also, other revisions had to be made; for example, the title of the work and the names of its other characters. The alterations were made to satisfy the authorities, and the composition was finally approved. It…