Kyungho Kim’s gleaming tenor provided vocal thrills, and he got the Duke’s self-absorption down pat.
The stage premiere of the Národní divadlo’s powerful new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto directed by Barbora Horáková Joly was a gala night at the opera. The splendor of the newly restored State Opera, to say nothing of the audience’s response and an entire flower shop’s stock delivered on stage during the curtain calls, added to the luster of the evening. And for all the talk about the death of fashion post-COVID-19, the younger people in the audience didn’t get the memo.