G. VERDI

RIGOLETTO

FEB 11.14.16.18 2017

Visionary director Marthinus Basson launched CTO’s 2017 season with an unflinching new staging of Verdi’s dark melodrama. Metropolitan Opera regular Fikile Mvinjelwa returned to Cape Town to play the hunchbacked jester, with Belvedere Singing Competition finalists Noluvuyiso Mpofu and Lukhanyo Moyake making their role debuts as his daughter Gilda and the licentious Duke of Mantua. An explosive meeting of South Africa’s foremost young singers with a veteran theatrical innovator, united under the masterful baton of Maestro Kamal Khan, Rigoletto promises to thrill and chill in equal measure.

CONDUCTORKAMAL KHAN
DIRECTOR + SET DESIGNMARTHINUS BASSON
COSTUME DESIGNERMICHAEL MITCHELL
LIGHTING DESIGNERKOBUS ROSSOUW
CHOREOGRAPHER + ASSOCIATE DIRECTORMARK HOEBEN
CHORUS MASTERMARVIN KERNELLE
ORCHESTRA LEADERPATRICK GOODWIN
CAPE TOWN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

 

THE DUKE OF MANTUA LUKHANYO MOYAKE
RIGOLETTO FIKILE MVINJELWA
COUNT CEPRANO XOLELA SIXABA
COUNT MONTERONE MANDISINDE MBUYAZWE
SPARAFUCILE THOMAS MOHLAMME
MATTEO BORSA NKULULEKO MASUKU
CAVALIERE MARULLO MANDLA MNDEBELE
COUNTESS CEPRANO ABONGILE FUMBA
GILDA NOLUVUYISO MPOFU
GIOVANNA DANIELLE SPECKMAN
MADDALENA NONHLANHLA YENDE
USHER PAUL MADIBENG
PAGE JODIE KHAN
UNDERSTUDIES MANDISINDE MBUYAZWE, MARTIN MKHIZE
LINDILE KULA SNR, PAUL MADIBENG
FRANCES DU PLESSIS, ANÉ PRETORIUS