Experience the tragic opera Rigoletto by Verdi at the Indianapolis Opera. Famous arias, dramatic story, and talented cast ...

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Indianapolis Opera is bookending its 51st season with two time-honored works that will span the spectrum of emotions. Tragedy will strike in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" in November, while Wolfgang ...

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 ...

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 ...