As the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra unleashes its prelude to Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto," the title character appears, his back to the audience, striking a series of twisted poses. The sequence ...

Rigoletto is conducted by Maestro Jason Tramm, who serves as the Artistic & Executive Director of Light Opera of New Jersey. Sung in Italian with supertitles. To purchase tickets, click this link, or ...

There's a simple but inspired piece of staging in the San Francisco Opera's "Rigoletto," the 1851 Verdi masterwork that opened Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. A father has just guessed the ...

For an opera that had its premiere in 1851, Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto has a startling relevancy in the era of #MeToo, and Opera Hong Kong’s new production presents a powerful portrait of a world ...

To Raise the Curtain on San Francisco Opera’s 103rd season, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Opera Guild will present Opera Ball on Friday, September 5, 2025. The festive evening includes a ...

What to do with a Giuseppe Verdi opera that involves a virginal woman being degraded, abducted and treated as so much property, comes with no female chorus and yet is beloved at least in part for its ...

Whereas Verdi set his "Rigoletto" in the licentious court of the Duke of Mantua in the 16th century, the team for the Metropolitan Opera's new production, unveiled in late January, has placed the ...

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 ...

Under the direction of Hugh Halliday and conductor Andrea Licata, Opera Australia revives Elijah Moshinsky's landmark production of Verdi's Rigoletto. A philandering Duke, a lovestruck young woman, ...

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 ...