“Rigoletto” is the first opera that I have ever attended. I was expecting to have a boring time, but to my surprise the show was very entertaining. The opera was performed October 7, 2003 at 8 p.m. at the “Ford Center for the Performing Arts”. I was seated on the third row from the stage. It was nice being very close to the action. There was a lot of good music and a lot of action on stage. The crowd was into the whole show and was appreciative for the great singing from all the characters. The atmosphere of the show was casual to formal.
To start, I showed up at the show thirty minutes early to find my seat. While sitting there, I noticed that the orchestra was warming up. I heard a lot of mixed playing from the members of the orchestra. It was really rough on the ears. The dissonance was really annoying and I was ready to hear them play together. When t
The second scene has a very erie setting. I would describe the music at this point in the show as being dissonance, it wasn’t pleasing on the ears. At the beginning, another character by the name of Sparafucile offers Rigoletto that he will kill anyone he wants to knock off for money. During the scene, the orchestra and the singing match perfectly. After they are done talking Rigoletto’s daughter enters. She asks her father who her mother is. Her singing is soprano. She had a very beautiful voice with a high pitch and a lot of vibrato. RIgoletto’s wife died many years back and he was very hurt from it to the point that he couldn’t speak of her. As Rigoletto leaves, the Duke enters. He sings of love to Rigoletto’s daughter. While the Duke and the daughter were singing together I notice that their pitch matched very nicely. The Duke tells Rigoletto’s daughter that he is a poor studen
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