Rigoletto
Costume Design
1908 (drawn)
1908 (drawn)
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Costume design by Attilio Comelli (1858-1925) for Gilda in Act II of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave, based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse. Performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where it received two performance in the Royal Italian Opera season on 23 May and 4 June 1900. These marked the Covent Garden debut of Australian soprano Beatrice Miranda. Miranda came from a musical family and was described as ‘showing great artistic capabilities and a pretty if not particularly powerful voice, with some brilliant high notes’.
Object details
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| Title | Rigoletto (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and pencil on board |
| Brief description | Costume design by Attilio Comelli for Gilda in Act II of Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1900. |
| Physical description | Costume design by Attilio Comelli for Gilda in Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto. Female figure wearing a pale grey and pink bodice with matching long skirt and headdress, ruff and wrist ruffs. Signed and dated 1900. |
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| Credit line | Given by the estate of David Dean |
| Summary | Costume design by Attilio Comelli (1858-1925) for Gilda in Act II of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave, based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse. Performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where it received two performance in the Royal Italian Opera season on 23 May and 4 June 1900. These marked the Covent Garden debut of Australian soprano Beatrice Miranda. Miranda came from a musical family and was described as ‘showing great artistic capabilities and a pretty if not particularly powerful voice, with some brilliant high notes’. |
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| Accession number | S.336-2018 |
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| Record created | December 2, 2018 |
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