FTP, name this Verdi opera about a hunchbacked court jester.
In the book from which it was adapted, the character in this opera who claims to be impoverished student Gualtier Mald?was originally Fran?is I, king of France.  However, censors wouldn't allow such an overtly political statement, and further denied use of the proposed title "The Curse."  Also not chosen for the title was Le roi s'amuse, the title of the Victor Hugo work from which it was taken.  The unhappy title character recalls a curse after his daughter is abducted, after she loses her virginity, and after she sacrifices herself to save the libertine Duke of Mantua.  FTP, name this Verdi opera about a hunchbacked court jester.
In the book from which it was adapted, the character in this opera who claims to be impoverished student
Rigoletto