Rigoletto by Verdi, Ds. 12 Juny 2004, De (2004/2004), Dirigit per Hugh Halliday, Director musical Armando Victor Krieger, Greg Hocking, The Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

This stunning new production was directed by Melbourne’s Greg Carroll and designed by Peter Corrigan, who created a spartan, hard-edged set for Her Majesty’s Theatre, to fit with the dark themes of this dramatic opera. From the play Le Roi s’Amuse by Victor Hugo with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi’s Rigoletto is one of the most popular operas ever written. Featuring such well known arias as La Donna e Mobile and Caro Nome, it tells the tragic story of a father’s thwarted revenge on the man who abducted his daughter.