Verdi's Rigoletto given 'cinematic' makeover for BBC

Placido Domingo to play lead role in special performance of opera that will use real-life locations in Italian city of MantuaIt is one of the great tales of lust, love and seduction, in which a curse and a plot to murder spiral into a devastating finale. But while productions of Verdi's Rigoletto, a tragic masterpiece set against the backdrop of ducal power in Renaissance Mantua, have traditionally been confined to the stage, a new interpretation is set to transport television viewers to the ver...

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