Watch Erin Morley, Rihab Chaieb, Pene Pati, and Luca Salsi sing an excerpt from the Act III quartet in a recent performance. Reigning Verdi baritone Quinn Kelsey reprises his devastating portrayal of ...

It was the right decision for the Welsh National Opera chorus to call off its planned strike that would have prevented this opening night performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Instead, they and the ...

David McVicar’s memorable 2001 production of Rigoletto has returned to the Covent Garden stage, with very few changes. With his dark and intriguing take on the tragic story, the audience is kept in ...

Opera Circle presents: Giuseppe Verdi's,clasic opera " Rigoletto". Be sure not to miss this full-scale production, complete with soloists, orchestra, costumes, chorus, staging, sets, & supertitles!

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 ...

The vicious hunchbacked jester at the court of Mantua has hidden his daughter from the world, particularly from the licentious Duke. Unfortunately, the handsome Duke has encountered Gilda and, posing ...

But here’s the thing: it really works, as fresh, coherent and compelling as ever. Miller’s overarching big idea – the almost abstract patriarchal nightmare of Verdi’s Renaissance Mantua mapped onto ...

That communication Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano displays with a true magician’s sense of pace and sleight of hand, deftly transitioning from hollow comedy to ugly tragedy, alert as ever ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com When San Francisco Opera opens its 2025-26 season on Sept. 5 with ...