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Rigoletto
Verdi
Sydney Opera House

Conductor                                Sesto Quatrani

Director                                    Elijah Moshinsky

Revival Director                       Kate Gaul

Assistant Director                   Bec Moret

Set and Costume Designer    Michael Yeargan

Lighting Designer                   Robert Bryan

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Rigoletto                                  Dalibor Jenis

Duke of Mantua                       Kang Wang

Gilda                                         Gemma Nha

Monterone                               Gennadi Dubinsky

Sparafucile                              David Parkin

Maddalena                               Sian Sharp

Marullo                                    Simon Meadows

Borsa                                       Virgilio Marino 

Ceprano                                   Johnathan Alley

Giovanna                                  Dominica Matthews

Countess Ceprano                  Jennifer Black

Page                                         Katherine Wiles 

Usher                                       Malcolm Ede

 

Opera Australia Orchestra

Opera Australia Chorus

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Joan Sutherland Theatre 2026

Photography: Keith Saunders

"Revival Director Kate Gaul deserves full credit for restoring the Fellini-esque quality of Moshinsky’s original, breathing new life into fully fledged characters that elicit visceral responses from the audience. It’s a potent piece of theatre and Gaul turbocharges it." Jansson J. Antmann, Limelight

"a reminder that some masterpieces are not preserved by time; they are sharpened by it....Elijah Moshinsky’s production, first seen in 1991, has long occupied a special place in Opera Australia’s repertoire. What is striking, however, is not its longevity but its refusal to become merely “classic”. It still possesses the confidence of a production that trusts Verdi above theatrical novelty. There is no attempt to modernise the work through conceptual intervention. Instead,it reveals how modern the work already is .... Time Tide: Cutting through the Noise

"If the world’s most architecturally iconic opera house needs, of necessity, a resident opera company, and if there are those who might be tempted to hold place with a bare minimum of effort merely, settling for artistic breakeven as a default… to be the opera company you have in the Sydney Opera House so that there’s an opera company in the Sydney Opera House… then it’s productions like this one that defy such a crass, “McOpera” mindset — to reject hubris, to embrace singularity, and to aspire to be iconic in one’s own right ... Gaul handled Moshinsky’s staging mostly extremely well ..." David Meadows

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