What to do with a Giuseppe Verdi opera that involves a virginal woman being degraded, abducted and treated as so much property, comes with no female chorus and yet is beloved at least in part for its ...

NEWBURGH — "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi tells the tale in opera of a crippled jester who serves his master, the Duke, in seducing young women. Rigoletto is cursed by an offended father, and the curse ...

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What is it about “Rigoletto” that causes tin-eared stage directors to paint graffiti all over the opera? The new production that opened last month at the Metropolitan Opera, which wags promptly dubbed ...