DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Giuseppi Verdi’s masterwork, Rigoletto, is a comic opera gone grim. All the elements of traditional farce populate the stage: a licentious duke, an overprotective father, his ...

Rigoletto, the title character of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is a court jester with hyperkyphosis, aka a hunchback. I don’t know if I’m technically a hunchback, but I do slouch a lot, and I’ve started to ...

Opera Australia's traditional rendition of the Verdi opera has the audience humming its famous tunes and eating out of Emma Matthews' hand It is a blustery Sydney night as Opera Australia’s winter ...

Baritone Nathan Matticks as Rigoletto and soprano Catherine Goode as Gilda in Opera in the Height's production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim Every character in Giuseppe Verdi’s ...

"Rigoletto," Giuseppe Verdi's story of a court jester and his skirt-chasing master, opens with a rowdy palace party. Yet only a handful of revelers can fit on Lambert Hall's little stage. So much for ...

WILKES-BARRE — The opera “Rigoletto” is an intensely sad story about an innocent young woman, seduced and slain apparently because bad karma is coming back to hit her father with a vengeance. But, ...

In an engaging but problematic staging, the Duke’s court is relocated to interwar Oxford, with Alison Langer’s beautifully sung Gilda a standout A lot happens before anyone sings a note in Opera ...

Opera Circle presents: Giuseppe Verdi's,clasic opera " Rigoletto". Be sure not to miss this full-scale production, complete with soloists, orchestra, costumes, chorus, staging, sets, & supertitles!

Verdi's "Rigoletto" has been adapted into an innovative Peking Opera performance "The Jester" in which the court entertainer is no longer a hunchback, but a high-flying martial artist. "The Jester" ...

From my experience, plenty of American opera fans grumble when directors and designers decide to move a story to a different setting or era than the one presented at an opera’s premiere, whether that ...