Opera Philadelphia returns to the Academy of Music stage for the first time since September 2019 with four performances of Rigoletto from April 29-May 8. Long one of the most popular works in the ...

San Francisco Opera opens its 103rd season on Friday, September 5 with Opera Ball, the opening night benefit gala co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (September ...

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In March 1851, Verdi’s Rigoletto wowed an unsuspecting crowd at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The surprise was twofold. Not only was the composer following one of his worst flops, Stiffelio, but he ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis Opera will present Verdi’s classic opera ‘Rigoletto’ at the Tarkington Theatre on November 14th, 15th, and 16th, featuring local talent Ganson Salmon as the Duke of ...

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With attention centered on the Houston opera debut of the great Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, a native Texan stole the show in the Houston Grand Opera revival of Verdi's Rigoletto. Having ...

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 ...

He Sang/She Sang is a new podcast from WQXR for the opera-curious and opera superfans who want to know what all those big voices are really singing about. The podcast follows the radio broadcast ...

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 ...