Victor Hugo + Verdi = Rigoletto. What grandeur; what art! @ManitobaOpera ‘s current playing production is worth
seeing.
womanizer + jester + curse = great opera. This is a treatise, without benefit of
feminist sensibilities, on fickleness (at one point the Duke says “Women are as
fickle as feathers in the wind.”) and infidelity (the aforementioned Duke’s!). Actually very enjoyable. Not a spoiler alert – the ending has all the
joy of a Shakespearean tragedy!
And btw, who is Gilda’s mother?
