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 ...

As the haunting melodies of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto filled the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on Thursday evening, Ro Jae Hun, ambassador of the Republic of Korea to China, ...

From the opening doom-laden chords through to the anguished sounds of the final moments of Rigoletto the audience was carried along by the glorious music which conjured up feelings of love, despair, ...

CAIRO, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Seats were all occupied at the main hall of Cairo Opera House as opera lovers watched Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Rigoletto, which was staged in Cairo ...

Underlining the otherness of Verdi’s court jester by making him a black man is a masterstroke by Femi Elufowoju Jr, the leads sung with potency by Eric Greene and Jasmine Habersham The big idea in ...

At the Duke’s infamous parties, one man’s words light the darkness with a sinister glitter. Among the glamorous girls and greasy gangsters, Rigoletto serves his master with sharp wits and averted eyes ...

Sir Mark Elder celebrates 50 years at Covent Garden by returning to his first opera there in 1976 – Verdi's Rigoletto – in a revival of Oliver Mears' excellent 2021 production. The New National ...

The womanising Duke of Mantua is hosting a magnificent party in his apartments: his jester Rigoletto cruelly mocks the husbands and fathers of the many women his master has seduced. One of them, ...

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 ...

The womanising Duke of Mantua is hosting a magnificent party in his apartments: his jester Rigoletto cruelly mocks the husbands and fathers of the many women his master has seduced. One of them, ...

The big idea in Femi Elufowoju Jr’s reading of Rigoletto for Opera North is so powerful and so current and at the same time so true to the artistic force of Verdi’s setting of Victor Hugo that it is ...