David McVicar’s memorable 2001 production of Rigoletto has returned to the Covent Garden stage, with very few changes. With his dark and intriguing take on the tragic story, the audience is kept in ...

Rigoletto, the title character of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is a court jester with hyperkyphosis, aka a hunchback. I don’t know if I’m technically a hunchback, but I do slouch a lot, and I’ve started to ...

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 ...

When San Francisco Opera opens its 2025-26 season on Sept. 5 with Verdi’s masterpiece “Rigoletto,” it will represent the beginning of a journey that will then take audiences to a mythical world in ...

Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize most abundantly; which company can hoard the ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com When San Francisco Opera opens its 2025-26 season on Sept. 5 with ...