flowers

arrangements by design

  • swan lake
  • giselle
  • rigoletto
  • aida
  • tosca
  • rigoletto

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    • The hunch-back Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua and good at humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The Duke, a skirt chaser, notices a young lady every Sunday on her way to church and vows to have her. No one knows the girl is the jester's daughter, Gilda, or that she is smitten with the Duke. The courtiers discover that Rigoletto is secretly living with Gilda, whom they believe to be his mistress. To humiliate Rigoletto, they kidnap Gilda and deliver her to the Duke's bedroom, where she is quite willing to let him have his way with her. Rigoletto consumed with the desire for revenge, contacts a thief who has a beautiful sister, and contracts with them to lure the Duke to a tavern and murder him. Things keep getting more ridiculous until Gilda ends up stabbed, sings a duet with her father and dies.
 

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