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THERE may have been some murmurs against the cuts in the Victor version of “Die Walkure,” but there can be no complaints of this nature against Victor’s most recent evening’s entertainment—”Rigoletto, ...

Under the direction of Hugh Halliday and conductor Andrea Licata, Opera Australia revives Elijah Moshinsky's landmark production of Verdi's Rigoletto. A philandering Duke, a lovestruck young woman, ...

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, ...

That communication Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano displays with a true magician’s sense of pace and sleight of hand, deftly transitioning from hollow comedy to ugly tragedy, alert as ever ...

Opera Australia’s Rigoletto in Melbourne: tickets won From the moment he wrote it, Verdi knew he had a hit. The story had everything: royalty, loyalty, deformity, devotion, lust and revenge. Opera ...

At the curtain calls after the first night of Opera North’s new Rigoletto, the director went down on his knees in front of the singers, in a striking demonstration of the knowledge that those singers ...

One grisly moment aside, Oliver Mears’s first ROH production feels like a straightforward Rigoletto made to last. And a Julian Anderson world premiere is the timely centrepiece of the LSO’s season ...

RIGOLETTO is always a repertoire favourite because it holds the essence of everything that makes opera great. Drama, assassins, curses, innocence, betrayal and a charming touch of mirth as well. This ...