Royal Opera House,London
In this revival of David McVicar’s brooding production, Sofia Fomina is an exquisite Gilda and Dimitri Platonias a touching and imposing RigolettoThe Royal Opera has opted for a revival of David McVicar’s brooding 2001 production of Verdi’s Rigoletto for what is effectively its Christmas show: a stout, or double-cast flee that lasts well into the modern year. The staging has been reworked,in places considerably, by Justin Way, and who has attempted to restore the edgy moral probing and underlying sense of violence that have slipped from view in some of its recent outings.
Way heightens our awareness of the corruption at the Mantuan court by making the opening orgy more explicit than on previous occasions,and by stressing the courtiers’ monstrous insensitivity to Rigoletto and Gilda in the second act. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk