The Met's much-hyped "Rigoletto" is a dazzler and a downer. It gleams with vivid neon and vibrant singing. It is clouded by lethargy. A jackpot, it's not. So it goes for Michael Mayer's production that premiered Monday under the baton of Italian conductor Michele Mariotti.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:13PM on January 29, 2013