The Met rings in the new year with the gala premiere of a bold new take on Verdi's timeless tragedy from Bartlett Sher. The Tony Award­-winning director resets the opera's action in 1920s Europe, with ...

What to do with a Giuseppe Verdi opera that involves a virginal woman being degraded, abducted and treated as so much property, comes with no female chorus and yet is beloved at least in part for its ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Revenge and tragedy strike onstage with Verdi's Rigoletto. Dark and brooding, this ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis Opera will present Verdi’s classic opera ‘Rigoletto’ at the Tarkington Theatre on November 14th, 15th, and 16th, featuring local talent Ganson Salmon as the Duke of ...

Every character in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto goes way overboard for love. Hunchbacked jester Rigoletto loves daughter Gilda so much he locks her inside the house, except for Sunday church services.

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with “Rigoletto,” Verdi’s tragedy of a man struggling to separate the good from the evil in ...

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 ...

The Amarillo Opera is putting a western twist on a classic tale including love, fate, revenge and the abuse of power in Verdi's "Rigoletto," set to be performed in the Globe-News Center for the ...

Rigoletto is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian ...