opera notebook

some operas I have seen on video


Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto (1851)
Opernhaus Zürich, 2014

Saimir Pirgu and Aleksandra Kurzak
Saimir Pirgu and Aleksandra Kurzak

An inventive production, practically semi-staged, with a long table providing all the framing that director Tatjana Gürbaca needed to foreground the drama of Rigoletto.

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