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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Opera San José’s 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. See photos from the production. Boasting some of opera’s most memorable music, including the ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Get all the top news & discounts for Opera & beyond. This is an immensely popular show. Verdi is the most produced composer of opera in the world, and Rigoletto is the eighth most frequently produced ...
Portland Opera is at an impasse. The organization's audiences are waning. Production costs are still high. And now, it's without a permanent director. In July, Christopher Mattaliano, the opera's ...
What a coincidence, you tend to think, when, in the first act of “Rigoletto”, the assassin Sparafucile emerges from the shadows to offer his services to the title character, a hunchbacked jester at ...