I must admit that the Met’s current revival of IL TROVATORE--with RIGOLETTO and TRAVIATA, considered the great creations of ...

Jonathan Miller's Mafia adaptation of Verdi is still classy and crowd-pleasing four decades later - but for all its handsome ...

As usual, the gala concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation started off with an interloper from the golden age of opera ...

This current stretch of the Metropolitan Opera’s season is all meat and potatoes, dense with revivals of Puccini and Verdi— ...

Nearly half a century on and Jonathan Miller’s Mafia Rigoletto is still doing the business ... father and daughter seem never to have met. While conductor Richard Farnes is impatiently revving ...

With opera companies including the ENO and WNO still reeling from the financial savagery of the previous government’s cuts ...

How we used to mock those stuck-in-the-mud opera houses that wheeled out the same moth-eaten production of some box-office favourite decade after decade. Well, Jonathan Miller’s 1950s New York mafiosi ...

It is a nuanced and finally moving performance, though the emotional heart of the opera has to wait until Rigoletto begs for mercy from the thugs who have abducted his precious daughter.

And one got the impression that all the characters on stage were meeting for the first time, which proved fatal in the relationship between Rigoletto and Gilda ... had engaged one of the country’s ...