Every character in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto goes way overboard for love. Hunchbacked jester Rigoletto loves daughter Gilda so much he locks her inside the house, except for Sunday church services.

Rigoletto is conducted by Maestro Jason Tramm, who serves as the Artistic & Executive Director of Light Opera of New Jersey. Sung in Italian with supertitles. To purchase tickets, click this link, or ...

Rigoletto, the title character of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is a court jester with hyperkyphosis, aka a hunchback. I don’t know if I’m technically a hunchback, but I do slouch a lot, and I’ve started to ...

Opera San José’s 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. See photos from the production. Boasting some of opera’s most memorable music, including the ...

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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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Some of the most famous moments in all of opera will get a central Indiana airing in November as the Indianapolis Opera presents “Rigoletto.” Giuseppi Verdi first penned ...

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 ...

A personal explanation may be necessary here; baritone Eric Greene came to my third Opera in Depth Zoom session, and gave us a two-hour masterclass on Verdi’s music for his protagonist in Act Two. How ...

Wow, who’d a thunk it? In spite of all the dire signs of opera’s impending demise (right along with its aging audiences), Chicago’s 2024 fall season got off to an impressively rousing start at Lyric ...