Rigoletto is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian ...

David McVicar’s production of Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House has just been revived, and I went along on Friday night hoping my friend was right. Based on a play by Victor Hugo, Verdi's opera is ...

The womanising Duke of Mantua is hosting a magnificent party in his apartments: his jester Rigoletto cruelly mocks the husbands and fathers of the many women his master has seduced. One of them, ...

Set against a backdrop of 1930s Italy and featuring a sinister carnival atmosphere, this production follows the tragic story of Rigoletto, the unfortunate, sycophant clown to the licentious Duke of ...

Rigoletto is the kind of opera that, even if you staged it in a darkened storage locker, would still feel incandescent. The Metropolitan Opera has taken the opposite approach, tricking out its new ...

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 ...

Rigoletto is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian ...

"Rigoletto," Giuseppe Verdi's story of a court jester and his skirt-chasing master, opens with a rowdy palace party. Yet only a handful of revelers can fit on Lambert Hall's little stage. So much for ...

Since its first performance at the Khedivial Opera House in 1869 celebrating the opening of the Suez Canal, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto has attracted audiences until present. Rigoletto is being staged ...

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.