It’s a tragic tale of lust, love and a fateful curse. For opera audiences, Verdi’s opera masterpiece “Rigoletto” remains as fresh today as it did when it premiered in 1851. For all of its popularity, ...

Act One begins in the palace of the Duke of Mantua, where the Duke himself is holding court. He's a self-obsessed cad, notorious for his indiscreet love life. We also meet the Duke's acid-tongued ...

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 ...

Opera San Jos&eacute’s current production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto gives you your Verdi straight. The opera is simply staged, with traditional costumes and sets. This is not a production that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe you have opera jokes. We did. When the Pop Culture Happy Hour team planned a trip to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, we grudgingly served up to each other our dusty old gags about Bugs Bunny ...

Oliver Mears’s striking staging posits a Mantua united by misogyny and violence and boasts a terrific cast, with Lisette Oropesa truly outstanding Mears’s Mantua is a place of sandstone walls and ...