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Subject Area: Music
Topic: Opera and Liberty

SCENE IV.—: Sparafucile, Rigoletto, Duke and Magdalen. - 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.—

Sparafucile, Rigoletto, DukeandMagdalen.

Rig.

You said twenty crowns. Here are now ten.

After the deed I shall give you the rest.

Is he still here?

Spa.

He is.

Rig.

I shall return

At midnight hour.

Spa.

Your aid I don’t require;

I can alone throw him into the river.

Rig.

No, no, I wish to throw him in myself.

Spa.

Be it so. What is his name?

Rig.

His name is Crime, and Punishment is mine.

[Exit Rig. It becomes dark, and thunders.