Houston Symphony veteran Mangum hasn’t led an opera company before, but he’s a lifelong superfan and has a record of ...

This intricately woven musical farce revolves around the philandering Count Almaviva (bass-baritone Gordon Bintner) who ...

Director Barbara Gaines’ production of Mozart’s opera is a bit wacky at times, with the audience waiting for the more ...

The opera premiered on March 11, 1851, at La Fenice Opera House in Venice and has been a staple of the repertoire ever since.

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ENO has lately borne the brunt of drive-by funding massacres by the ruthless (and opera-loathing) capi who control the UK ... But it’s the scenes between Gilda and Rigoletto that make this revival ...

The hunchbacked Rigoletto, jester to the Duke of Mantua in the original and Jokester to the Mafia 'Duke' in Miller's version, is played by American baritone Weston Hurt, singing powerfully and ...

It is a nuanced and finally moving performance, though the emotional heart of the opera has to wait until Rigoletto begs for mercy from the thugs who have abducted his precious daughter.

Adele Addison is a celebrated American lyric soprano ... the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1963 and made his Met debut the same year, as Monterone in Rigoletto.