At a party in his palace, the Duke of Mantua boasts of his way with women: he dances with the Countess Ceprano, and his hunchbacked jester, Rigoletto, mocks the countess’s enraged but helpless husband ...

There’s something special about seeing an opera for the first time. Christopher Mattaliano’s first opera was Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” performed in a summer festival at New York’s Metropolitan ...

Published 19 October 2026 3:00pm BST First seen in 2022, Femi Elufowoju Jr’s account of the jester Rigoletto’s oppression by the Duke of Mantua gives Verdi’s opera a fiercely contemporary edge. Its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OHP Chorus (craig fuller) Cecilia Stinton's new staging of Rigoletto, opening the season at Opera Holland Park, is the third ...

Get a look at production photos from Pittsburgh Opera's Rigoletto, which continues at the Benedum Center through October 18.

Opera Australia's traditional rendition of the Verdi opera has the audience humming its famous tunes and eating out of Emma Matthews' hand It is a blustery Sydney night as Opera Australia’s winter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...