Rigoletto With RIGOLETTO, Verdi greatly enhanced the style of the Italian opera. The voices of bass, baritone, tenor and soprano are all intricately used to create diverse and extensive characters. Verdi maintains his characters' musical individuality in ensembles, solos and the infamous quartet, which is strategically placed in the last act. RIGOLETTO is set in the sixteenth century and takes place in Mantua, Italy. The opera is about the strong, protective relationship that a court …showed first 75 words of 580 total…

…showed last 75 words of 580 total…Victor Hugo's drama, "Le Roi s'Amuse". Verdi is noted for his thirty-two compositions that were completed between 1839 and 1893. Some may attest that he only composed twenty-six operas. Many scholars accredit him for extensive revisions he later made. Guiseppe Verdi was born at Le Roncole, which was part of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy. He passed on in 1901 in his suite at the Grand Hotel in Milan, where he had been supervising the Casa di Riposo since 1898.