Get a first look at the production of Rigoletto now on stage at the Met Opera in this all-new video. Reigning Verdi baritone Quinn Kelsey reprises his devastating portrayal of the title court jester, ...

“This is not a cathartic tragedy or a tale of noble sacrifice. There are no admirable characters here, no moral lesson, no redemption, and no silver lining. There is only a merciless depiction of ...

(AP) Diana Damrau recalled when she learned the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Rigoletto would be set in the glitzy Rat Pack-era Las Vegas of 1960, not 16th-century Mantua. At first you get a ...

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 ...

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 ...