Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini In the world of opera, when directors update repertory works to contemporary settings, they almost always remain true to 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 ...

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 ...

Recorded in Dresden in 2008, Nikolaus Lehnhoff's production of Rigoletto is a ferocious, if uneven affair, that awkwardly positions the opera between religious drama and psychopathology. Lehnhoff ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Anthony Tommasini Shortly into Act I of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which opened on Monday night, ...

The operas of Giuseppe Verdi often come across as moving targets, hard to pin down into a single, definitive form. Quite a few present themselves in multiple guises, adapted by the composer to the ...

Since its first performance at the Khedivial Opera House in 1869 celebrating the opening of the Suez Canal, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto has attracted audiences until present. Rigoletto is being staged ...

With its sharply conceived and darkly atmospheric production of “Rigoletto,” San Francisco Opera turned to one of its redoubtable repertory staples to open the company’s summer season. Verdi’s ...

Back in 2020, baritone Anthony Clark Evans and mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi were both preparing to make their debut with Opera Philadelphia in Madame Butterfly, but the pandemic hit the opera world ...

David McVicar’s production of Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House has just been revived, and I went along on Friday night hoping my friend was right. Based on a play by Victor Hugo, Verdi's opera is ...

Commercials run on a TV screen at the front of the stage before the opera starts. The setting is a contemporary sports club, with a boxing ring smack in the centre, a portaloo on one side (used for ...