In March 1851, Verdi’s Rigoletto wowed an unsuspecting crowd at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The surprise was twofold. Not only was the composer following one of his worst flops, Stiffelio, but he ...

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 ...

Paul Thomason: You know this guy is sex on a stick and charm personified. He's the ultimate bad boy. He's the sort of person you look at, and you think, "God, he is such trouble, but I bet he'd be ...

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 ...

Opera Philadelphia returns to the Academy of Music stage for the first time since September 2019 with four performances of Rigoletto from April 29-May 8. Long one of the most popular works in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canadian soprano Sarah Dufresne, a late replacement in the role of Gilda, marks a astonishing COC debut in this somewhat uneven remount production.

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” is a father’s worst nightmare. Despite Rigoletto’s Herculean efforts to keep his daughter Gilda sequestered from predatory men, in Francesco Maria Piave’s libretto, ...