Rigoletto

As regular readers know, Rigoletto is not my favorite opera, and when the curtain came up I thought, hey, this may be the one to change my mind.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

As regular readers know, Rigoletto is not my favorite opera, and when the curtain came up I thought, hey, this may be the one to change my mind.

Almost Perfect 2007

On Saturday nights, Mrs. Harling used to play the old operas for us -- 'Martha,' 'Norma,' 'Rigoletto' -- telling us the story while she played.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Virginia Opera Company: an old-school "Rigoletto" with some vocal sparkstarget = "new" (scroll down for review), by Joan Reinthaler

Link: BSO in the capable hands of a teen Anne Midgette 2010

Even with one of its orchestra's buses broken down en route, the Virginia Opera Company's production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" opened its two-performance run at the George Mason University Center for the Arts almost on time Friday.

Performing Arts: Kelli O'Hara lights up the Kennedy Center Nelson Pressley 2010

Liszt's concert paraphrase of themes from Verdi's "Rigoletto" was by turns nutty and trashy, the piles of small notes in purling runs given a translucent lightness.

In performance: Sara Daneshpour 2010

There are colorful orchestral effects, such as lightning music that turns up later in "Rigoletto," and a vigorous finale for principals and chorus, in which Giacomo denounces Giovanna, that suggests "Traviata."

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

There are colorful orchestral effects, such as lightning music that turns up later in "Rigoletto," and a vigorous finale for principals and chorus, in which Giacomo denounces Giovanna, that suggests "Traviata."

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

When she was 18, she sang in Verdi's "Rigoletto," an opera about a hunchbacked jester who locks away his beloved daughter Gilda in a vain effort to protect her from the hardships and ugliness of the world.

Obituary: Italian mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato dies Emily Langer 2010

He began singing with a madrigal group at 14, made his concert debut at 17, won a scholarship to a music academy in Milan, and in 1941 made his operatic debut singing Sparafucile in Verdi's "Rigoletto," an awfully low role for your average teenager.

Opera singer Cesare Siepi dies at 87 2010