Remounting a familiar production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" may not be the most thrilling way for San Francisco Opera to open its fall season, but the choice proves rewarding in ways both musical and ...

Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses. “Rigoletto” remains an opera reminding us ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Petean as Rigoletto and Aida Garifullina as his adored daughter Gilda - Alastair Muir Petean's put-upon Rigoletto is ...

As the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra unleashes its prelude to Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto," the title character appears, his back to the audience, striking a series of twisted poses. The sequence ...

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 ...

For an opera that had its premiere in 1851, Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto has a startling relevancy in the era of #MeToo, and Opera Hong Kong’s new production presents a powerful portrait of a world ...

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 ...