Underlining the otherness of Verdi’s court jester by making him a black man is a masterstroke by Femi Elufowoju, the leads sung with potency by Eric Greene and Jasmine Habersham ...

There’s something special about seeing an opera for the first time. Christopher Mattaliano’s first opera was Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” performed in a summer festival at New York’s Metropolitan ...

Get a look at production photos from Pittsburgh Opera's Rigoletto, which continues at the Benedum Center through October 18.

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 ...

The production, directed by Femi Elufowoju Jr, features a superb cast, including Blake Denson as Rigoletto and Jasmine ...

A melodramatic story and sometimes awkward stage direction took a little of the shine off San Diego Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork “Rigoletto” this past weekend, but the singing and ...

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 ...

It is one of the great tales of lust, love and seduction, in which a curse and a plot to murder spiral into a devastating finale. But while productions of Verdi's Rigoletto, a tragic masterpiece set ...

Christopher Alden's new production of Rigoletto for ENO at the Coliseum is based on an interesting new idea. The plot of this magnificent Verdi opera centres on the hunchbacked Rigoletto, who is court ...