This work opens with the title character mocking C
This work opens with the title character mocking Count Ceprano because the duke is seducing Ceprano's wife at that very moment. Later, the title character sings that he and Sparafucile, the assassin, are alike after he and the Duke of Mantua are cursed. That curse materializes in the last act when that character's daughter, Gilda, is murdered. This is discovered as a reprise of the aria "La donna è mobile" as heard in, for 10 points, what Verdi opera about a deranged hunchbacked jester?
This work opens with the title character mocking Count Ceprano because the duke is seducing Ceprano's wife at that very moment.
{Rigoletto}