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The Finger Lakes Opera is preparing for its next show, “Rigoletto,” a tragic tale of love, vengeance, and sacrifice.The actor ...
Rigoletto, the title character of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is a court jester with hyperkyphosis, aka a hunchback. I don’t know ...
‘Rigoletto’ at the Met Unites a Father and Daughter. Again. Quinn Kelsey and Rosa Feola have earned raves playing a jester and his child in a new production of Verdi’s opera.
This “Rigoletto” closes Conlon’s penultimate season as L.A. Opera music director. Seemingly born to conduct Verdi, Conlon can whip up as much dramatic excitement as anyone might need.
Casting is a mixed bag. There’s plenty to enjoy from American baritone Weston Hurt’s Rigoletto – unexpectedly lyrical in the middle of his register, with diction good enough to fling James ...
It was the right decision for the Welsh National Opera chorus to call off its planned strike that would have prevented this opening night performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Instead, they and the ...
We chose to see Rigoletto, precisely because it's a classic. It's real, hardcore actual opera. We didn't want to be reluctant, or to insist that opera come meet us where we were. We wanted to dive in.
Hunchbacked jester Rigoletto loves daughter Gilda so much he locks her inside the house, except for Sunday church services. Gilda, fragile and virginal, knows not the ways of the world, and ...
Los Angeles Opera hasn’t had a lot of luck with “Rigoletto,” which returned to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage Saturday night. The company’s first attempt was in 1993. Hoping for ...
Ring a ding ding! There’s a new Duke in town, and he’s jolting the Met’s “Rigoletto” with enough electricity to light up the Las Vegas Strip. It’s Vittorio Grigolo, who flaunted a big ...
A&E Entertainment ‘Rigoletto’ gets new setting Opera Coeur d’Alene gives Verdi’s work a timeless twist by placing it in the future Fri., Sept. 13, 2013 Mark Walters, center, will play the ...