Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto (2008)

Rigoletto tells the story of the crippled court jester Rigoletto and his adored daughter Gilda whom he desperately tries to protect from the advances of the pleasureloving Duke of Mantua While Gilda naïvely gives credence to the Dukes amorous advances he is concerned only with constantly changing erotic relationships of which he boasts in his famous aria Questa o quella Rigoletto fails A terrible curse uttered against him by Count Monterone whom he had once ridiculed before the entire court comes true at the end he holds his beloved daughter dead in his arms