Opening Chicago’s cultural season with a vengeance, Verdi’s psychological thriller Rigoletto returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago through October 6, 2024. Check out video footage from the production here ...

First in a trilogy of operas composed amazing The troubadour and La Traviata , Rigoletto is primarily a real drama of passion, betrayal, love and revenge inspired by the play of Victor Hugo, the king ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with “Rigoletto,” Verdi’s tragedy of a man struggling to separate the good from the evil in ...

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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 ...

But here’s the thing: it really works, as fresh, coherent and compelling as ever. Miller’s overarching big idea – the almost abstract patriarchal nightmare of Verdi’s Renaissance Mantua mapped onto ...

Do Irish audiences know how lucky they are to see world-class opera again and again? Last night's full house, in marked contrast to the limited number of spectators so intensely hooked on a dramatic, ...

An Offer You Can’t Refuse? With opera companies including the ENO and WNO still reeling from the financial savagery of the previous government’s cuts and with no immediate respite being offered in ...

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 ...