Rigoletto
washington national opera
March 2008
SET DESIGN | Robert Dahlstrom
COSTUME DESIGN | Zack Brown
LIGHTING DESIGN | Mark McCullough
CONDUCTOR | Giovanni Reggioli
CAST | Carlos Álvarez | Joseph Calleja | Lyubov Petrova | Andrea Silvestrelli | Malgorzata Walewska
PHOTOGRAPHY | Karin Cooper
Washington Post | Anne Midgette | March 2008
“Malfitano gave a lot of attention to making sure the action was clear on stage. The first act - which often can go by so fast that its actions remain opaque to the audience - was for once actually understandable as well as unsavory (this Duke has a taste for prepubescent girls, two of whom are borne in to him in their nightgowns).”