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Subject Area: Music
Topic: Opera and Liberty

SCENE IV.—: Enter Marullo, with great anxiety. - Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto: An Opera in Four Acts [1851]

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Rigoletto: An Opera in Four Acts, words by Victor Hugo (New York: Fred Rullman, n.d.). Metropolitan Opera House, Grand Opera, Libretto.

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SCENE IV.—

EnterMarullo,with great anxiety.

Mar.

Great news! fine news!

Cho.

Quick, what has happened, say?

Mar.

You will all be surprised.

Cho.

Speak on, speak on.

Mar.

Ah, ah! Rigoletto—

Cho.

Well

Mar.

Strange case.

Cho.

What, has he lost his hump? Is he now straight?

Mar.

More strange still, the foolish man possesses—

Cho.

What? say—

Mar.

A lover.

Cho.

A lover! who can e’er have thought of this?

Mar.

The hump-back is transformed into a Cupid.

Cho.

Oh, what a monstrous Cupid! charming Cupid!