Indianapolis Opera is bookending its 51st season with two time-honored works that will span the spectrum of emotions. Tragedy will strike in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" in November, while Wolfgang ...

Every character in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto goes way overboard for love. Hunchbacked jester Rigoletto loves daughter Gilda so much he locks her inside the house, except for Sunday church services.

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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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 ...

With its sharply conceived and darkly atmospheric production of “Rigoletto,” San Francisco Opera turned to one of its redoubtable repertory staples to open the company’s summer season. Verdi’s ...

Rigoletto is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian ...

Carmen, Mimi, Norma, Tosca, Violetta, Cio-Cio-San, Medea, Liù, Aida, Lulu: Being an opera heroine is harrowing work. For hundreds of years, opera's women have ...

THERE may have been some murmurs against the cuts in the Victor version of “Die Walkure,” but there can be no complaints of this nature against Victor’s most recent evening’s entertainment—”Rigoletto, ...