Growing up, you couldn't have paid me to go to the opera. I couldn't stand classical music. It was loud and screechy, and I couldn't understand why anyone would like it. The mere fact that those who ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Diana Damrau recalled when she learned the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto" would be set in the glitzy Rat Pack-era Las Vegas of 1960, not 16th-century Mantua. "At ...

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LAKE PLACID – Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer makes his Met debut with a new production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which will be transmitted as an encore presentation to the Lake Placid Center ...