Music is in full swing this season at the Finger Lakes Opera Summer Festival. They have a variety of performances queued up, ...

He sang his first Rigoletto in 1999, in his native Romania, and has returned to it in venues from Salzburg to Livermore. This, he notes, will be his fifth time in the part, and he’s clearly ready.

This “Rigoletto” closes Conlon’s penultimate season as L.A. Opera music director. Seemingly born to conduct Verdi, Conlon can whip up as much dramatic excitement as anyone might need.

Quinn Kelsey and Rosa Feola are used to playing father and daughter. It started in 2013, when Kelsey jumped into the title role of the cursed jester in Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” in Zurich ...

Los Angeles Opera ends its season with a new production of Verdi's 'Rigoletto' featuring baritone Quinn Kelsey, whose visceral energy and terrifying clown suit are the stuff of nightmares.

Rigoletto takes his contact details, just, you know, on the outside chance that he might want to off someone. Yet in Oliver Mears’s new production at the Royal Opera House ...

What distinguished this Rigoletto was the staging: It was placed in Vegas, in perhaps the 1950s or 1960s.Rigoletto wore an argyle sweater. (With his hump under it.) Rather than being an actual ...

Rigoletto (George Gagnidze), masked as a clown, allows both the wearer and the world at large to detach from the reality of his humanity. Photo: Rafterman / Courtesy of the Atlanta Opera.

Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" is an opera full of jagged edges, all too few of which are evident in the new production by the New York City Opera at the State Theater in Lincoln Center. With the ...

Superb ‘Rigoletto’ leads keep the thrills coming in Lyric season opener Mané Galoyan, Igor Golovatenko and Javier Camarena mesh beautifully in Verdi’s propulsive, fast-action work.

Director Mary Birnbaum offers up a "Rigoletto" that's partly revisionist yet has all the traditional pleasures of Italian opera-going. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 71°F.

Hunchbacked jester Rigoletto loves daughter Gilda so much he locks her inside the house, except for Sunday church services. Gilda, fragile and virginal, knows not the ways of the world, ...