Rigoletto – review

Theatre Royal, GlasgowEven La Donna è Mobile is not what it seems. The famous um-cha-cha kicks in act three as the Duke of Mantua prepares to seduce a prostitute-cum-assassin, using his cheerful tune to muse on the fickle and disposable nature of women. It's typical, subversive Verdi, as macabre and sordid as anything he wrote, and Scottish Opera's new production has no qualms about making that explicit.For their first main-stage engagements with the company, director Matthew Richardson and de...

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