An opera in three acts
Libretto by Piave based on Victor Hugo's "Le Roi s'amuse"
Music by Verdi
From the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Led by George Hallam
Conductor, Georg Solti
Producer, Franco Zeffirelli
Act 1 Scene 1: The palace of the Duke of Mantua

† Ian GRIMBLE , author of a boot on the Sutherland evictions of the nineteenth century, discusses an earlier tragedy in the Highlands-the disappearance of early Gaelic writings in verse and prose.
His reflections are prompted by the recent publication of a boot on Edward Lhuyd 's journal of his HiKhland tour in 1699, which contains our first surviving catalogue of an early Gaelic library.

ACT 1 Scene 2: Rigoletto's house

In recent years some of the themes of Goya's work have been traced to literary and popular sources.
† NIGEL GLENDINNING , Professor of Spanish in the University of Southampton, argues that this new insight affects the present-day conception of Goya as an artist
The Royal Academy Winter Exhibition Coya and his Times is on view until March 1.

ACT 2: The palace

on Life, Death, and Immortality
Night the First from ' The Complaint * by EDWARD YOUNG 1683-1765 read by HUGH BURDEN

Act 3: A lonely inn by the river
Franco ZeffireUi talks to Laurence Kitchin in New Comment on Tuesday at 8.0 followed by an Interlude at 10.50