The hunchbacked Rigoletto ... has sung this role impressively before in Italian, but seemed less comfortable with the ENO's policy of performing in English. James Fenton's translation is excellent ...

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Miller’s Rigoletto is a barman colluding with his ... Verdi’s sublime music manages to overcome the choppy, sometimes banal English translation by James Fenton.

But it’s the scenes between Gilda and Rigoletto that make this revival truly glow, and sing. As she scampers up and down the fire-escapes, Robyn Allegra Parton looks, and sounds, suitably flighty and ...

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