Opera San José’s 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. See photos from the production. Boasting some of opera’s most memorable music, including the ...

In 2012, director Michael Cavanagh staged a bold production of Giuseppe Verdi’s classic opera Rigoletto for the Hamilton Opera in Ontario. He moved the setting from the 16th-century northern Italy ...

San Francisco Opera opens its 103rd season on Friday, September 5 with Opera Ball, the opening night benefit gala co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (September ...

The production's many ideas keep battering you to think when Verdi’s music is pleading with you to feel At first glance there’s really nothing here to merit the frenzied criticism and cries of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elder doesn’t indulge in musical histrionics; his control is firm but deft, allowing the vivid orchestral effects in Verdi’s ...

The ABC sits in on a dress rehearsal of Opera Queensland's Rigoletto, and talks to director Lindy Hume, to get a taste of the final preparations ahead of the national premiere this weekend. Two ...

Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura conducts a rehearsal with the OH Orchestra and baritone Nathan Matticks in the title role of Rigoletto Credit: Photo by Alyssa Weathersby Hurt ...

Baritone Nathan Matticks as Rigoletto and soprano Catherine Goode as Gilda in Opera in the Height's production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim Every character in Giuseppe Verdi’s ...

What to do with a Giuseppe Verdi opera that involves a virginal woman being degraded, abducted and treated as so much property, comes with no female chorus and yet is beloved at least in part for its ...

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 ...

I first heard Verdi’s opera Rigoletto on a record I got from the library in my hometown, over fifty years ago. The first performance of Rigoletto I remember was a broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera ...