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Opera San Jos&eacute’s current production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto gives you your Verdi straight. The opera is simply staged, with traditional costumes and sets. This is not a production that ...
Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses. “Rigoletto” remains an opera reminding us ...
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 ...
“Rigoletto,” Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic 1851 opera about a revenge plot gone horribly awry, carries more than its fair share of 19th-century baggage. Houston Grand Opera’s latest production, which opens ...
Eugene Brancoveanu admits he’s fully immersed in “Rigoletto” right now – “to the point,” he says, “where I live, breathe, think, feel, walk, dream, and sing the part.” The deep-voiced baritone is ...