Jonathan Miller’s game-changing mafioso setting of Rigoletto returns to the Coliseum, vividly conducted by Richard Farnes.

I am often dismayed by directors' attempts to do something original, changing the time, place and even the plot of operas in ...

I t was the right decision for the Welsh National Opera chorus to call off its planned strike that would have prevented this ...

Jonathan Miller's Mafia adaptation of Verdi is still classy and crowd-pleasing four decades later - but for all its handsome ...

There’s no shame in pulling an old favourite from the vaults but Jonathan Miller’s 1982 gangster-themed production is firing ...

It’s 42 years since Jonathan Miller’s mafioso inspired staging of Verdi’s tragic tale of revenge gone wrong, first burst upon ...

Giuseppe Verdi 's smash hit Rigoletto arrives at Opéra Bastille from December 1 to June 12, 2025. Premiered in 1851 at La Fenice in Venice, this opera, based on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave ...

In Verdi and Piave’s subversive dig at autocracy, The Duke of Mantua surrounds himself with fawning courtiers and unscrupulous thugs. His all-male court mocks women and uses them as playthings, ...

Rigoletto’s timeless tale of passion, revenge, and obsession is on spectacular display in director Mary Birnbaum’s Lyric debut. The trio at the center of Rigoletto is anchored by three ...