There’s something special about seeing an opera for the first time. Christopher Mattaliano’s first opera was Giuseppe Verdi’s ...
First seen in 2022, Femi Elufowoju Jr’s account of the jester Rigoletto’s oppression by the Duke of Mantua gives Verdi’s opera a fiercely contemporary edge. Its decisive step is to abandon the ...
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 ...
Get a look at production photos from Pittsburgh Opera's Rigoletto, which continues at the Benedum Center through October 18.
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 ...
WHOLESALE reinterpretations of long-standing favourites are always an intriguing draw for music lovers, but when 16th century Europe is ‘supplemented’ with an elevator, exotic animals and a ...
As the haunting melodies of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto filled the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on Thursday ...
It is one of the great tales of lust, love and seduction, in which a curse and a plot to murder spiral into a devastating finale. But while productions of Verdi's Rigoletto, a tragic masterpiece set ...
Underlining the otherness of Verdi’s court jester by making him a black man is a masterstroke by Femi Elufowoju Jr, the leads sung with potency by Eric Greene and Jasmine Habersham The big idea in ...
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