South Florida Classical Review attended Rigoletto and gave us the following review:
Rigoletto ain’t pretty. Sorry to be so blunt. But for pretty, go to later Verdi calling cards, the likes of La Traviata, A Masked Ball, Otello. This trio alone could make “pretty” blush by comparison.
Not so, Rigoletto. It’s a black hole of irony, curses, revenge and tragedy from which little light or life can escape.
It’s also a slam-dunk season-opener if ever there were one. It’s an obvious choice if Palm Beach Opera wanted to walk on the wild side for its first production of 2008-09. And Saturday night’s second cast positively wallowed in the mud-slinging, wading waist-deep in the seedy side of humanity.