There's a simple but inspired piece of staging in the San Francisco Opera's "Rigoletto," the 1851 Verdi masterwork that opened Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. A father has just guessed 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 ...

The performances will take place at the 4,680-seat Odeon of Herodes Atticus located at the foot of the Acropolis. The production is directed by the Festival's Artistic Director, Katerina Evangelatos, ...

Piedmont Opera presents Verdi’s tragic masterpiece Rigoletto, directed by Steven LaCosse, general manager of the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute of the UNCSA and conducted by Piedmont Opera’s General ...

Opera in the Heights (Oh!) presents Giuseppe Verdi’s "Rigoletto," which kicks off its 2014-2015 season opening at historic Lambert Hall, 1703 Heights Blvd., on Sept. 26 in the Houston Heights. The ...

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi signs a contract in April 1850 to write a new work for the 1850-'51 season of Venice's La Fenice theater. Among the proposed subjects is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's ...