Lean and immediate tragedy: Verdi’s Rigoletto, Regents Opera
An old man, hunched and stooping, clambers onto a stage. With an air of exhausted bitterness, he smears white paint onto his face, dons a jester’s horned cap, picks up his stick of bells: Rigoletto is ready for another day of work. However, this day at the Duke of Mantua’s court will end in a…
