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 ...

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 ...

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

San Francisco Opera opens its 103rd season on Friday, September 5 with Opera Ball, the opening night benefit gala co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (September ...

In March 1851, Verdi’s Rigoletto wowed an unsuspecting crowd at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The surprise was twofold. Not only was the composer following one of his worst flops, Stiffelio, but he ...

Baritone Nathan Matticks as Rigoletto and soprano Catherine Goode as Gilda in Opera in the Height's production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Credit: Photo by Pin Lim Every character in Giuseppe Verdi’s ...

Recently, while researching operas that premiered in November, I rediscovered that "Oberto," by my favorite composer Giuseppe ...

There's a simple but inspired piece of staging in the San Francisco Opera's "Rigoletto," the 1851 Verdi masterwork that opened Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. A father has just guessed the ...

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi signs a contract in April 1850 to write a new work for the 1850-'51 season of Venice's La Fenice theater. Among the proposed subjects is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's ...