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 ...
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 ...
Whereas Verdi set his "Rigoletto" in the licentious court of the Duke of Mantua in the 16th century, the team for the Metropolitan Opera's new production, unveiled in late January, has placed the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For years Opera Australia’s 1991 production of Rigoletto by Elijah Moshinsky subtly upstaged Verdi’s music and drama with its brittle evocation of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, not to mention its nifty ...
Tennessee alternative quartet Rigoletto are teaming up with AP to bring you the premiere of their new music video for the song “Vandals.” The song is now available for purchase from Rigoletto’s ...
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 ...