This story was originally published by ArtsATL. At first glance “Rigoletto,” Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera about a hunchbacked clown whose daughter is abducted by a lecherous duke, doesn’t seem to have ...

Back in 2020, baritone Anthony Clark Evans and mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi were both preparing to make their debut with Opera Philadelphia in Madame Butterfly, but the pandemic hit the opera world ...

Opera San José’s 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. See photos from the production. Boasting some of opera’s most memorable music, including the ...

For Amartuvshin Enkhbat, a Mongolian singer, bringing the role of the cursed court jester to La Scala’s modern production is a personal milestone. By David Belcher In that quarrelsome family of ...

Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize most abundantly; which company can hoard the ...

Rigoletto, the title character of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, is a court jester with hyperkyphosis, aka a hunchback. I don’t know if I’m technically a hunchback, but I do slouch a lot, and I’ve started to ...