Performer: Ben Bliss

Christopher Alden’s Victorian-era Rigoletto still divides opinions, despite top-notch performances all around in this Toronto revival. 

The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral. 

Opera lovers’ favorite roué is back at the Met, with the charismatic Ryan Speedo Green taking on the title role.