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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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Lyric Opera of Kansas City opened its excellent production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" ...

With its sharply conceived and darkly atmospheric production of “Rigoletto,” San Francisco Opera turned to one of its redoubtable repertory staples to open the company’s summer season. Verdi’s ...

For a lot of reasons, Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” is better than many of the operas that are produced so frequently across the world. With a libretto based on Victor Hugo’s writings, it is a genuine ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” is a father’s worst nightmare. Despite Rigoletto’s Herculean efforts to keep his daughter Gilda sequestered from predatory men, in Francesco Maria Piave’s libretto, ...

“Rigoletto,” Giuseppe’s 1851 score based on a play by Victor Hugo, is the quintessential 19th century Italian opera. It has so many elements associated with the genre at its finest that even Verdi ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Around midway through Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” an odious cuckolded count ...

As audience members found their seats Friday evening for the Florentine Opera’s weekend production of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "Rigoletto," the atmosphere in the hall took on the feel of a family ...

Maybe you have opera jokes. We did. When the Pop Culture Happy Hour team planned a trip to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, we grudgingly served up to each other our dusty old gags about Bugs Bunny ...