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Front Page arrow Titles (by Subject) arrow SCENE VII.—: Rigoletto advances from the road enveloped in his cloak. The violence of the storm is diminished, only now and then the lightning is to be seen and the thunder heard. - Rigoletto: An Opera in Four Acts

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Subject Area: Music
Topic: Opera and Liberty

SCENE VII.—: Rigoletto advances from the road enveloped in his cloak. The violence of the storm is diminished, only now and then the lightning is to be seen and the thunder heard. - 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 VII.—

Rigolettoadvances from the road enveloped in his cloak. The violence of the storm is diminished, only now and then the lightning is to be seen and the thunder heard.

Rig.

At last the time of my revenge approaches.

For thirty days I waited this fatal hour

In tears most bitter,

Under the mask of a buffoon. That door

[Examining the house.

Is shut—’Tis not the hour yet.

What a dreadful night is this!

In heaven a storm,

On earth a homicide—

I feel myself yet great.

It is midnight.

[It strikes twelve.