RIGOLETTO

December , 2024

Goldman Theater DCJCC | Baltimore Theatre Project

MUSIC BY G. VERDI
NEW ENGLISH TEXT BY BARI BIERN

Stage Direction by Timothy Nelson
Music Direction by Emily Baltzer

Design by Jonathan Dahm Robertson, Donna Breslin, Paul Callahan

Voted as audience choice for IN Series’ 2019-20 season, this circus version of Rigoletto, complete with a circus band and bawdy new text by Bari Biern, became a victim of COVID-19, but before that, victim to 19th-century censors that found its exploration of the misdeeds of the powerful too dangerous for the public eye. The production will finally roar to life on the stage December 7-15 at the Goldman Theater DCJCC and the Baltimore Theatre Project. At once darkly devilish, toe-tappingly infectious, and horrifically funny, Verdi’s masterpiece is made intimate, in-your-face, and inescapably enjoyable under the big top, with a cast of fan favorites returning from IN Series’ 2023 production “The Promised End,” and led once more by Emily Baltzer.

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