Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses. “Rigoletto” remains an opera reminding us ...

Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura conducts a rehearsal with the OH Orchestra and baritone Nathan Matticks in the title role of Rigoletto Credit: Photo by Alyssa Weathersby Hurt ...

There's a simple but inspired piece of staging in the San Francisco Opera's "Rigoletto," the 1851 Verdi masterwork that opened Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. A father has just guessed the ...

Rigoletto. The very name of the main character makes many audience members at the Santa Fe Opera sigh with sympathy for the tragic fate of the court jester in the mid-nineteenth-century masterpiece ...

For a lot of reasons, Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” is better than many of the operas that are produced so frequently across the world. With a libretto based on Victor Hugo’s writings, it is a genuine ...

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 ...

In March 1851, Verdi’s Rigoletto wowed an unsuspecting crowd at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The surprise was twofold. Not only was the composer following one of his worst flops, Stiffelio, but he ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat returns to San Francisco as the tormented court ...

Paul Cremo of the Metropolitan Opera tells us what it’s like to be a dramaturg and the specific challenges and rewards of modernizing the titles for Michael Mayer’s new production of Rigoletto, set in ...