Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera Rigoletto returns this month to the Israeli Opera with Ioan Hotea as the duke, Ionut Pascu as Rigoletto, Hila Fahima as Gilda, Mariano Buccino as Sparafucile ...
I am often dismayed by directors' attempts to do something original, changing the time, place and even the plot of operas in ...
It’s 42 years since Jonathan Miller’s mafioso inspired staging of Verdi’s tragic tale of revenge gone wrong, first burst upon ...
Jonathan Miller’s game-changing mafioso setting of Rigoletto returns to the Coliseum, vividly conducted by Richard Farnes.
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An Offer You Can’t Refuse? With opera companies including the ENO and WNO still reeling from the financial savagery of the ...