Rigoletto
Plot: A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A vengeful but misguided court jester strives to save his daughter from a duke’s licentious clutches, but can't part with the feeling that a curse looms over all of his actions

Cornell MacNeil
Ileana Cotrubas
Justino Díaz
Plácido Domingo
Isola Jones
Ariel Bybee
James Levine
Kirk Browning
Giuseppe Verdi
Victor Hugo