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Clear, complex and gripping: Opera North's Rigoletto reviewed

29 January 2022

9:00 AM

29 January 2022

9:00 AM

Rigoletto

Leeds Grand Theatre, touring until 1 April

RLPO/Bavouzet/Hindoyan

Philharmonic Hall

Say what you like about that Duke of Mantua, but he’s basically an OK sort of bloke. A bit of an arse, sure; the kind of TOWIE-adjacent, skinny jean-wearing reality star who’d commission photographic portraits of himself and recruit an entourage of hipsters and B-boy wannabes. But really, his worst crimes are against taste.

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