Talk:Rigoletto

How many acts?
Some versions of this opera, such as for instance the Schirmer piano-vocal score, have it in FOUR acts, the First Act ending with Monterone's curse and the Second Act beginning with Rigoletto's initial encounter with Sparafucile and ending when the courtiers abduct Gilda. Should the article mention this? I report, you decide. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 23:05, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Bella figlia dell’amore
I think that the act 3 quartet Bella figlia dell’amore deserves an article of its own, see

http://www.metopera.org/en/education/educator-materials/educator-guides/rigoletto/Multiple-Perspectives/

for a reference.

Information from this web page together with material in this article already (such as its use in Quartet (2012 film), and the piano transcription, but we should be specific about the authorship etc. of this transcription, to the point that possibly even a reference needed tag is appropriate here) could already be the basis of a good stub. Andrewa (talk) 21:16, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Quartet (2012 film) has a non-MOS-compliant link to File:Enrico Caruso, Bessie Abott, Louise Homer, Antonio Scotti, Giuseppe Verdi, Bella figlia dell' amore (Rigoletto).ogg which is a former featured sound here on English Wikipedia but is now moved to Commons. Andrewa (talk) 16:33, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Stub created. Andrewa (talk) 17:13, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Act 1 scene 2 is not Rigoletto's house
It is a very frequent error in many synopses to say that Act 1 scene 2 is Rigoletto's house. The libretto does not say that. It is the house where he is lodging Gilda with her duenna Giovanna and he visits once a day. He probably lives in servant's quarters in the Duke's palace. This is why the courtiers assume Gilda is Rigoletto's mistress, they know he is keeping her there and pays her visits. The original Hugo play makes it clear that she has just left convent school and her father recently provided the house and companion for her.I have amended the synopsis.Smeat75 (talk) 01:15, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Apparently Michael Bednarek believes to be entitled to delete sourced pronunciations, both English and native... Other works of art have pronunciations, e.g. Les Misérables, Mona Lisa... and they are protected pages! --92.184.96.116 (talk) 11:54, 8 March 2020 (UTC)