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 ...

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 ...

Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) opens its 33rd season with Giuseppe Verdi’s legendary tragedy “Rigoletto,” Nov. 6, 8 and 10 at the Lobero Theatre. Showtimes ...

Pittsburgh Opera is opening its 2026-27 season with Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” this Saturday at the Benedum Center.

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 ...

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 ...

Underlining the otherness of Verdi’s court jester by making him a black man is a masterstroke by Femi Elufowoju Jr, the leads sung with potency by Eric Greene and Jasmine Habersham The big idea in ...

As the haunting melodies of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto filled the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on Thursday evening, Ro Jae-hun, ambassador of the Republic of Korea to China, ...

Act One begins in the palace of the Duke of Mantua, where the Duke himself is holding court. He's a self-obsessed cad, notorious for his indiscreet love life. We also meet the Duke's acid-tongued ...