There’s no shame in pulling an old favourite from the vaults but Jonathan Miller’s 1982 gangster-themed production is firing ...

Jonathan Miller's Mafia adaptation of Verdi is still classy and crowd-pleasing four decades later - but for all its handsome ...

The story of Rigoletto is lifted from Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’Amuse (The King Amuses Himself), that was banned in France ...

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I am often dismayed by directors' attempts to do something original, changing the time, place and even the plot of operas in ...

Five singers join the Sarasota Orchestra and Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi for an evening of Verdi works ...

It’s 42 years since Jonathan Miller’s mafioso inspired staging of Verdi’s tragic tale of revenge gone wrong, first burst upon ...

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 ...

In Verdi and Piave’s subversive dig at autocracy, The Duke of Mantua surrounds himself with fawning courtiers and unscrupulous thugs. His all-male court mocks women and uses them as playthings, ...

Jonathan Miller’s game-changing mafioso setting of Rigoletto returns to the Coliseum, vividly conducted by Richard Farnes.