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 ...
Think of Tulsa Opera’s production of “Rigoletto,” which it presented Friday at ONEOK Field, as the operatic equivalent of an inside-the-park home run. An inside homer is a rare occurrence in baseball ...
For a lot of reasons, Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” is better than many of the operas that are produced so frequently across the world. With a libretto based on Victor Hugo’s writings, it is a genuine ...
The three act opera “Rigoletto” — written by Giuseppe Verdi, with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and based on the play “Le roi s’amuse” by Victor Hugo — has been a hit since performance one. Why?
When veteran baritone Stephen Powell performed the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” for the first time in 2011, young soprano Alisa Jordheim was there with him, playing a minor role as a ...