Rigoletto at Opera in the Heights offers soaring voices in this well-told tale. operaheights
. He sings the hell out of them all, but has a tendency to step up a half tone to get to the peaks. He's like an old-fashioned Italian tenor, barking beautifully. He even looks a bit like Caruso. Not a bad comparison.
As if they've stepped out of a painting by Caravaggio, bass-baritone Aiden Smerud and mezzo Aviana Burkepile are picture perfect villains. Being bad-ass, they eat up the stage, singing gloriously as they slink through the shadows doing their dirty work with a smile, a shiv, and a bit of leg.
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