Suddenly she is surprised by the Duke, disguised as a poor student, who declares his love. She wonders if she should have told her father about the man who follows her to church. As they are speaking, the Duke, in disguise, slips in and recognizes Rigoletto.Īfter Rigoletto leaves, Gilda confesses her feeling of guilt to her lady in wiating Giovanna. When she asks Rigoletto about her family and mother, he insists that she has no family and laments that her mother, the only one to have ever loved him, died. The jester rejects his services, but left alone and heading home, Rigoletto compares how he and Sparafucile use their respective weapons: Rigoletto, his wit, and Sparafucile, his sword.Īrriving home, Rigoletto is greeted by his daughter Gilda.
With Monterone’s curse weighing on him, Rigoletto encounters the assassin Sparafucile, who offers his assistance. After Rigoletto taunts him for trying to protest his daughter’s lost virtue, Monterone places a curse on the Duke and his jester. Suddenly, the party is interrupted by Count Monterone whose daughter’s honor has been besmirched by the Duke. Undeterred, Rigoletto continues to humiliate Count Ceprano in front of the Duke, and the incensed courtiers plot their revenge on the jester. Rigoletto, the court jester, takes an opportunity to tease Ceprano, while another courtier Marullo, in turn, tells the courtiers that Rigoletto has a mistress. The party continues as Count Ceprano watches the Duke pursue his wife. As they admire the ladies of the court, the Duke then expresses his admiration for all women and his disdain for monogamy. She lives in a remote street, and he knows nothing about her. At a debaucherous party hosted by the Duke of Mantua, he is regaling his friend Borsa about his latest flirtation, a young woman he sees each Sunday at church.
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