 When Hugo attended a performance of the opera in Paris, however, he marveled at the way Verdi's music in the quartet allowed the emotions of the four different characters to be heard together and yet distinguished clearly from each other at the same time and wished that he could achieve such an effect in a spoken drama.The section following the quartet, marked "Scena e Terzetto Tempesta" (scene and storm trio) is also, as Julian Budden has written,"without any antecedent".Very different from the storm music that can be heard in Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia" or "La Cenerentola" , that of the storm in "Rigoletto" is not an interlude between acts or scenes, but is totally integrated into the unfolding of the plot, with its strings in the bass register, its interventions of oboe and piccolo,and especially the male chorus behind the scenes humming through closed mouths to create the sound of the wind, a completely original effect.