Great Performances

Season 40, Episode 11

Episode Title: Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto

Air Date: 2013-05-17

Overview:

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) makes his Met debut with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. The new staging moves the opera’s tragic events from a decadent 16th-century Italian court to the glitzy, depraved setting of the Las Vegas strip circa 1960.