This story was originally published by ArtsATL. At first glance “Rigoletto,” Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera about a hunchbacked clown whose daughter is abducted by a lecherous duke, doesn’t seem to have ...

Back in 2020, baritone Anthony Clark Evans and mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi were both preparing to make their debut with Opera Philadelphia in Madame Butterfly, but the pandemic hit the opera world ...

For Amartuvshin Enkhbat, a Mongolian singer, bringing the role of the cursed court jester to La Scala’s modern production is a personal milestone. By David Belcher In that quarrelsome family of ...

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 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 ...

Bogotá, 25 may (EFE).Bogotá, 25 may (EFE). — Con un moderno “Rigoletto”, muy actual para la realidad colombiana, el Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo de Bogotá, en coproducción con la Ópera de ...

An Offer You Can’t Refuse? With opera companies including the ENO and WNO still reeling from the financial savagery of the previous government’s cuts and with no immediate respite being offered in ...

Seven years after singing the title role in “Rigoletto” for the Sarasota Opera, Marco Nistico will return to the tragic part of a hunchbacked court jester with a beautiful daughter, a licentious ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by As the Omicron variant looms, Bartlett Sher’s production of Verdi’s classic is set to open on New Year’s Eve. By Joshua Barone Bartlett Sher must have ...

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 ...