Hawaiian baritone Quinn Kelsey plays the part of Rigoletto with confidence. Rob Kearley keeps this uppermost coordinating musical intensity, stage action and vocal performance. Rigoletto’s chilling “Quel vecchio maledivami (The old man cursed me!)” locks us right into inexorable tragedy from which there is no escape. In 2017 San Francisco Opera’s summer production, under the guidance of director and SFO Rob Kearley, we witness a moving performance as well as experience the entire arc of ominous determinism of “La Maledizione (The Curse,” the title which Verdi first considered for the work. The libretto by Francisco Maria Piave is based on the play “Le Roi S’Amuse” of the French author Victor Hugo, setting the downbeat for his subsequent career as THE 19 th century Master of the Italian opera repertoire. Such is the subject of Verdi’s middle period masterpiece. A father and a daughter, a jester, a virginal naif, longing for and trying to sustain a good a life in selfish and lecherous world, power-hungry and greedy, 16 th century Mantua. “Rigoletto” can’t be topped for its humanity.
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