The Met rings in the new year with the gala premiere of a bold new take on Verdi's timeless tragedy from Bartlett Sher. The Tony Award­-winning director resets the opera's action in 1920s Europe, with ...

See first look photos of the Santa Fe Opera's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto directed by Julien Chavaz and starring Michael Chioldi, Elena Villalón, Duke Kim and Stephano Park. In the court 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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Some of the most famous moments in all of opera will get a central Indiana airing in November as the Indianapolis Opera presents “Rigoletto.” Giuseppi Verdi first penned ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, director Michael Cavanagh staged a bold production of Giuseppe Verdi’s classic opera Rigoletto for the Hamilton Opera in Ontario. He moved the setting from the 16th-century northern Italy ...

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.

Carmen, Mimi, Norma, Tosca, Violetta, Cio-Cio-San, Medea, Liù, Aida, Lulu: Being an opera heroine is harrowing work. For hundreds of years, opera's women have ...

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 ...