Opera in three acts on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after the play Le roi amuse by Victor Hugo One of Verdi’s most popular operas, Rigoletto enabled the composer to get close, for the second time during his creative activity, to the French poet, playwright, and novelist Victor Hugo, whom he had first met while writing his 1844 opera Ernani. But contrary to the sense of honor and the noble-mindedness highlighted ...