Rigoletto Production Concept...thoughts?

So here’s my idea...We set the show in like some sort of YouTube/social media vlog/reality show, to show how social media and the internet (and human nature and ambition) can make us all become animals in some way (and make us assume things in general and accentuate our bad qualities), for all of their benefits as well. Basically about how social media can lead to us becoming detached from our humanity, both for older folks and Generation Z teenagers. And also, the price of pursuing fame for all costs.Gilda is a young woman of around 15 or so who makes Tik Toks and Instagrams of her and her dad (to bring this point forward, she is sung by someone who is fresh faced and underage, like 15 or so)—and she is homeschooled. She will do anything to please her dad. She wants to be normal and actually wants to get out—hence the reason why she wants someone who is her age (a student) and poor. However, there are things going on underneath the surface than the Gilda we know—she is implied to bored, lonely, and apathetic at first after longing for human contact for so long, which she keeps hidden from her dad. In this, due to her boredom, she falls in love with the Duke mainly because she wants to be free from her dungeon and her dad, as he is a bit of a social media type dad (and she both loves him and is in fear of him).The duke is basically a spoiled Jake Paul esque young man who thinks he can get away with anything. He’s a bit of an attention whore who lives to be in the public eye, the type who is a shallow social media obsessed teen (he’s around 16 years old in this production, and is sung by someone who is around that age), who constantly posts on Tik Tok (hell, he tends to take selfies and in “La Donna E Mobile”, he’s making a Tik Tok/Instagram/Facebook live stream and basically brags about his thoughts about women to his audience), and is also a YouTuber who is very flashy, the opposite of the wholesome Gilda’s posts. It’s implied that he’s a bit crazy, and only sings in Italian to make himself seem cool (he also intentionally makes his voice more Artificially darkened for someone his age to make himself seem older, tougher, and cooler). He’s also implied to heavily stalk women to be his and catfishes them, even if they are not well educated enough (hence the reason for why Rigoletto keeps his daughter locked away). He’s the kid who divorced himself from his parents and moved out illegally at 16, despite not knowing how to run a company himself. He’s a predator, despite his young age, grooming Gilda and Maddalena. He’s an obnoxious little shit who’s obsessed with image and himself above all else.Rigoletto is a disgraced man who is unemployed—the “curse” was placed on him by an angry co worker at a party the night before (in this case another fellow producer) after Rigoletto had one too many drinks and started drunkenly disowning the people around him, which was caught on tape and became viral, embarrassing himself. He likes social media himself, although he is not as keen on it as Gilda is, and he hires the assassin (who in this version is inexperienced) through Craigslist, hence why we don’t see the assassin jump out to offer his services. He hates the Duke for being an obnoxious little shit who could care less about anyone.The courtiers here are actually Duke’s high school buddies, who like him (Generation Z) are obsessed with social media (they themselves are played by actual high school kids). They mainly kidnap Gilda not just to spite Rigoletto (whom they do not like for whatever the hell reason), but to become Tik Tok famous, and to fulfill a “Kidnapping Challenge”. Their attempts to become famous are successful, in all the wrong ways.Any thoughts about the concept? via /r/opera https://ift.tt/2SDe3NV