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Rigoletto In English --- 1984

The recording, made in association with the Peter Moores Foundation, is based on Jonathan Miller's original stage production of Rigoletto, premiered in 1982 and first revived in 1983. "In Jonathan Miller’s English National Opera production of Rigoletto recorded here, it was felt that the setting of the opera could be successfully updated from an indeterminate Renaissance period in Mantua to the Cosa Nostra world of the New York Mafia in the 1950s. The action is set in Little Italy, that part of New York under the control of the Mafia, in the 1950s." 32-page booklet contains note by Miller, full libretto in the sung translation commissioned for the production by James Fenton, commentary on the Mafioso world of the production's setting, artist biographies and production and artist photographs.