As the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra unleashes its prelude to Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto," the title character appears, his back to the audience, striking a series of twisted poses. The sequence ...
Get a first look at The Met's production of Rigoletto, now on stage through June 11th. Baritone Quinn Kelsey, a commanding artist at the height of his powers, brings his searing portrayal of the title ...
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 ...
In context, these words are ironic, even painful. But we have to get there first. Rigoletto tells the story of a hunchbacked court jester of the same name (Malcolm MacKenzie) and his daughter, Gilda ...
Verdi's operas are often the stuff of big emotions and thunderous clashes. But also they play well on a more intimate scale, as Opera San José's gripping production of "Rigoletto" clearly demonstrates ...
Carmen, Mimi, Norma, Tosca, Violetta, Cio-Cio-San, Medea, Liù, Aida, Lulu: Being an opera heroine is harrowing work. For hundreds of years, opera's women have ...
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 ...