Verdi: Rigoletto
Music and Vision (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Verdi: Rigoletto; Dublin, IE - Sunday 7 September 2008
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Perfection
The Shattered Realm (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Creation of Adam, Michaelangelo, 1511. Today, while listening to the timbre, strength and clarity of Luciano Pavarotti’s voice in certain parts of La Donna è Mobile in Verdi’s Rigoletto, it struck me quite sharply that the Resonance we feel when we find something deeply beautiful, majestic or wondrous is the recognition of something that is approaching perfection. When we are deeply touched by something...
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Photo Journal: Washington National Opera's Rigoletto
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Washington National Opera is currently offering a new staging of Verdi's Rigoletto , one of the most popular and beloved staples of the worldwide opera repertoire.
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This 'Rigoletto' is up to speed
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Evil never sounds as good as it does in a Verdi opera. This dark side of human nature gets a particularly tuneful and theatrically gripping workout in Rigoletto, which moves with brutal speed toward a tragic tangle of blind love, vengeance and self-sacrifice.
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DCist Goes to the Opera: Rigoletto
DCist (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
Carlos Álvarez as Rigoletto, Washington National Opera, 2008, photo by Karin Cooper Rigoletto , premiered at Venice's Teatro La Fenice in 1851, is generally named as the first instance of Giuseppe Verdi's mature compositional voice. In terms of dramatic cohesion and musical sophistication, it is light years ahead of Ernani , an opera from 1844 with a remarkably similar background (the same librettist,...
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ROH backs down over actor's bit part
The First Post (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
As an aspiring young actor, Juan Pablo Di Pace (pictured) was happy to play a small role in the Royal Opera House's 2001 production of Verdi's Rigoletto. But a small [...more]
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The Phallus Of The Opera
Londonist (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
For good or ill, a man can be prickly when pressed on the subject of his, ahem, endowment. Spare a thought, then, for Juan Pablo Di Pace, who has seen his manhood manhandled by the marketing department of the Royal Opera House . Cast in the crowd scenes for a 2001 production of Verdi's Rigoletto , Di Pace was surprised to discover some years later that his naked torso was used on posters advertising...
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Opera Buff: Actor Complains Over Size Of His Royal Opera House Part
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
JUAN Pablo di Pace is naked. He is appearing in an opera. The show’s producers want the Argentinean actor to appear naked in an advert. He agrees. Seven years on, and the poster of di Pace is still being used to promote the Royal Opera House’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Di Pace is unhappy. As the Mail [...]
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Royal Opera House airbrushed away my manhood, claims naked actor
Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
When he was asked to portray the leading role to advertise a Royal Opera House production of Verdi's Rigoletto, the fledgling actor was happy to oblige. But seven years on, with the powerful image still being used to promote the opera on huge billboards, the now established TV and film actor says a vital part of his anatomy has been unflatteringly air-brushed
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Where's My Beef?
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Argentinian actor Juan Pablo di Pace was in the chorus line of Verdi's Rigoletto at London's Royal Opera House in 2001 when he posed with other members of the company for this gorgeous promotional tableaux. He's the naked guy...
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Airbrushing made my package appear too small, fumes actor
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
An actor whose naked body promoted an opera is consulting lawyers claiming his package was airbrushed unfavourably. Argentinian Juan Pablo di Pace was in the chorus line of Verdi's Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House in 2001 and posed for publicity shots
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Emir Kusturica's Rigoletto: The Duke Of Sarajevo
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
In today's Repubblica crazy genius / film director/ opera fan / provocateur Emir Kusturica admits his man crush for Giuseppe Verdi and breaks the news that in 2013, to celebrate Verdi's bicentennial, he will direct Rigoletto for an Italian opera...
