Rigoletto | Opera review

Millennium Centre, CardiffCensorship forced Verdi to turn Victor Hugo's king in Le Roi S'Amuse into the Duke of Mantua, but James McDonald's portrait of a philandering president in a 1960s White House could hardly be more explicit. Welsh National Opera's staging was first seen in 2002 and revived once before; only now, with baritone Simon Keenlyside shifting the focus back to the tortured eponymous jester does Macdonald's concept really begin to work.It's hard to believe that Keenlyside is new t...

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