"Bella figlia dell'amore" ("Beautiful daughter of love") is a vocal quartet from the last act of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto.
It has been described as a "masterful quartet that is an intricate musical depiction of four personalities and their overlapping agendas",[1] and has been performed and recorded by many notable artists.
The plot of the 2012 film Quartet revolves around a performance of this quartet.
Rigoletto Paraphrase (1859, S. 434) is a virtuoso piano arrangement of the quartet by Franz Liszt. Another paraphrase was written by German composer Wilhelm Krüger (1820–1883) as his Op. 61.
- ^ "Multiple Perspectives: A Close Look at the Act III Quartet, 'Bella figlia dell'amore' Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Metropolitan Opera. Accessed 30 September 2014.