Opera San José's 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Boasting some of opera's most memorable music, including the signature aria “La donna è mobile,” ...

On March 18th and 20th, Guild Opera Company tells the tragic story of sacrifice, jealousy and vengeance. Giuseppe Verdi's ground-breaking three act opera Rigoletto is a wonderment of famous arias, ...

"The original title of 'Rigoletto' was 'La Maledizione,' or 'The Curse,'" said Hobson, professor of voice and director of the opera program at Southern. "We are setting the opera in Haiti. Curses in ...

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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis Opera will present Verdi’s classic opera ‘Rigoletto’ at the Tarkington Theatre on November 14th, 15th, and 16th, featuring local talent Ganson Salmon as the Duke of ...

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 ...

Political dictatorship, male-dominated hierarchies and women sexually exploited by those in power positions above them. For an opera written in 1851, Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" presses a lot of ...

Wow, who’d a thunk it? In spite of all the dire signs of opera’s impending demise (right along with its aging audiences), Chicago’s 2024 fall season got off to an impressively rousing start at Lyric ...

Every character in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto goes way overboard for love. Hunchbacked jester Rigoletto loves daughter Gilda so much he locks her inside the house, except for Sunday church services.

Juggling two opera careers, marriage and kids together can be fun – and also complicated. It’s a way of life for husband-and-wife singers soprano Kathryn Lewek and tenor Zach Borichevsky, starring in ...

Rigoletto (in green robe holding the ladder), played by George Gagnidze, is blindfolded and tricked into helping the courtiers abduct Gilda in the Dallas Opera’s performance of Rigoletto at the ...