Saturday, July 17, 2010

Rigoletto in Mantua Worldwide Broadcasting

Rigoletto will be broadcast live by RAI Uno on Sept. 4 at 8:30PM and Sept. 5 at 2:00PM and 11:15PM. Placido Domingo will be Rigoletto; Vittorio Grigolo will be the Duke; Olga Peretyatko will be Gilda; Zubin Mehta will conduct Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai; Vittorio Storaro will be the cinematographer; filmmaker Marco Bellocchio will direct.

* video [Corriere TV, Jul. 16]

Previous opera productions filmed using real locations were Traviata in Paris and Tosca in Rome. A Cenerentola in Turin is scheduled for 2011.

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