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Rigoletto at Covent Garden - Gavanelli and McVicar ride again

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Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 16 October 2010
Verdi, Rigoletto
The Royal Opera
Dan Ettinger, Conductor
Sir David McVicar, Director
Wookyung Kim, The Duke of Mantua
Paolo Gavanelli, Rigoletto
Ekaterina Sadovnikova, Gilda
Raymond Aceto, Sparafucile
Daniela Innamorati, Maddalena
Siegfried at the RBO: Kosky and Pappano surprise and delight
*****
Terfel’s craggy Boris Godunov returns to Covent Garden
****1
Ermonela Jaho returns in triumph to The Royal Opera’s Traviata
*****
Turandot drowned in an orchestral tsunami at The Royal Opera
***11
Handel’s Ariodante returns home to Covent Garden
****1
The Royal Opera stages its first Makropulos Case
***11
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