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Topic: Opera and Liberty

SCENE XI.—: The Duke in disguise arrives in the street. - 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 XI.—

The Duke in disguise arrives in the street.

Rig.

Some one outside—

[Rigoletto opens the street gate, and whilst he goes out, the Duke slides in, hiding himself behind a tree, and throwing a purse to Giovanna.

Gilda.

Oh, heavens!

He is always suspicious

Rig.

(to Gilda, returning.)

Has any one ever followed you to church!

Gio.

No, never.

[Aside

Duke.

(’Tis Rigoletto.)

If any one here knocks

You must not open.

Gio.

Not even to the Duke?

Rig.

Still less to him than others—Child, adieu.

Duke.

His child!

Gilda.

Adieu, my father.

[They embrace; and Rigoletto going out shuts the door after him.