Opéra Bastille in Paris will stage Victor Hugo's "Rigoletto" on select dates between May 27 and June 27, 2017.In Victor Hugo's luxuriant drama "Le Roi s'amuse," Verdi found theatre worthy of Shakespeare. Such, at least, were his enthusiastic words when he urged his librettist Piave to scour all Venice to find someone with sufficient influence to get his new opera past the censors unscathed. Alas, conventional morali…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 05:48AM on February 25, 2017