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 ...

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 ...

Premiering on March 11, 1851, “Rigoletto” is one of Verdi’s most popular operas, opening with great acclaim which cemented its place in the operatic repertoire. The libretto, written by Francesco ...

Directed by Marco Bellocchio, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from Mantua stars Placido Domingo as Rigoletto; Julia Novikova as his daughter Gilda; Vittorio Grigolo as the Duke; and Ruggero Raimondi as the ...

Ostensibly, Victor Hugo’s play Le roi s’amuse satirised the licentious court of King Francis I of France, but at the play’s 1832 premiere in Paris the authorities thought the subject close enough to ...

on Rigoletto, especially Count Monterone, whose daughter the Duke had dishonoured. Monterone curses the Duke and Rigoletto. Scene 2: A street; half of the stage, divided by a wall, is occupied by the ...

Sir Mark Elder celebrates 50 years at Covent Garden by returning to his first opera there in 1976 – Verdi's Rigoletto – in a revival of Oliver Mears' excellent 2021 production. The New National ...

With its powerful music and dramatic plot, Rigoletto is considered by many, including the composer himself, as Verdi's finest opera.The plot centres on two flawed characters, one even more despicable ...

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 ...