The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto

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  • Opened February 16, 2013 
  • 3 hr 35 min
  • NR | Suitable for all audiences
  • NCM Fathom brings the seventh season of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in movie theaters nationwide. The broadcast of Verdi’s Rigoletto will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 12:55 PM ET / 9:55 AM PT in select movie theaters. Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke of Mantua, Željko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda. Full synopsis

  • Genres: Concert/Special Events

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RIGOLETTO in 1960 in LAS VEGAS

by operahdbam

WOW! AMAZING! The singing, the acting, the staging, the clever updated translations - what a performance it was. The intermission interviews, which are different from the radio-boadcast interviews,...

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Rigoletto: Joe Green does Vegas!

by fan dancer

Since the average age at the 2 packed theatres where I saw Rigoletto was perhaps 50, this was a BLAST! We (I'm a baby boomer) all lived through the Rat Pack days. We remember Marilyn, Frank, Sammy...

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Very imaginative modern setting for Rigoletto

by fredtowers

This performance of Rigoletto was unforgettable. The singing was great, and the setting, lighting and costumes were fabulous. Although this was not the first time the opera had been staged in modern...

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