On March 11, 1851 there was played original first night of the opera Rigoletto in the theatre La Fenice in Venice. It was accepted with great excitement. The success even surprised the composer himself, who was not the beginner and he had had some experience with his previous fifteen operas. The artwork of the opera was the play of Victor Hugo The King is amused, which was big scandal after first performance in Paris in 1832. Verdi was amazed by Hugo´s ability to describe main characters of the play. Verdi wanted to reach the same result in music. He wanted to bring to the stage a humpback, a cripple with a smile on lips, tears in eays and anguish in the soul. He wanted to show a man who knew about his wrong dealing and therefore he experienced his curse deeply. During the composing, which is dated from the autumn 1850, it was connected with a censorship. The reason was the picture of vicious French monarch, the curse, joker´s deformation and a sack with a corpse of course. At the end there was reached a compromise. The plot was moved to Mantova and the names of all characters were changed. Melodical ideas, sharp characteristsc of the characters and the effort of dramatical truth made from Verdi a leading person of Italian composers.