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Verdi's Operas

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Rigoletto
Opera in three acts
Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE , after VICTOR HUGO'S drama Le Roi s amuse
(sung in Italian): records VIENNA STATE OPERA-CHORUS VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
The action takes places in 16th-century Mantua. Act 1
3.0* Julian Budden on Rigoletto
3.5* Acts 2 and 3

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Francesco Maria Piave
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Julian Budden
Source: Radio Times

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