The talented folks at St. Petersburg Opera are back in 2020 with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto and tickets are going very fast for this ever-popular work.
The show takes the stage in Hough Hall for three performances on Friday, Sunday and Tuesday, January 24, 26 and 28. For tickets and information you can follow this link. The Palladium box office will sell any remaining tickets starting a few days prior to Friday’s performance. Until then, tickets are available only through St. Petersburg Opera.
The online-publication, Broadway World, previewed the new production in a recent article. I’m sharing that with you here. To see the Broadway World site, just follow this link.
FROM: BROADWAY WORLD
Christopher Holmes
St. Pete Opera begins the New Year with three performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s timeless tragedy Rigoletto, Jan. 24-28 at the Palladium Theater.
Rigoletto tells the story of the lecherous Duke of Mantua (tenor Benjamin Werley), who will go to great lengths – not all of them honorable – to seduce women.
The hunchbacked court jester Rigoletto (baritone Christopher Holmes) often aids and abets his nefarious master by verbally abusing and ridiculing members of the court who cross or question the Duke.
Complications arise when Gilda, the beautiful, innocent daughter Rigoletto has raised in secret, falls under the Duke’s licentious spell. Gilda is played by coloratura soprano Holly Flack.
Holly Flack
The fully-staged opera will be performed in the original Italian, with English translations projected above the stage. Mark Sforzini will conduct the orchestra.
First performed in 1851, Verdi’s masterpiece includes the beloved aria “Caro nome” (sung by Gilda), the Duke’s crowing “La donna è mobile,” and the inspiring quartet “Bella figlia dell’amore,” with Rigoletto, Gilda, the Duke and the lusty barmaid Maddalena (mezzo-soprano Sarah Nordin).
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