New York Opera Review: Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera)
A GAMBLE WHICH DOESN’T ALWAYS PAY OFF Flashing, fluorescent lights, glitzy blazers, showgirls galore, and an immodest display of drama and decadence are the background for… wait… is that Dean Martin? No, the handsome and rakish would-be villain of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, played rapturously by tenor Piotr Beczala, is the Duke of a casino. Set in [...]