Opera Review: Opera: Rigoletto - O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin
Coke-snorting thugs, gyrating strip-club dancers, pimps and prostitutes are the lowlife denizens of the ‘Duke’s court’, in Opera Theatre Company’s reimagining of Rigoletto.
Director Selina Cartmell sets the murderous plot in a grotesque nocturnal fantasy of 1980s gangland Dublin. The action centres on a boxing ring. The look and atmosphere are reminiscent of Gavin Quinn’s recent setting for a gritty Carmen, also for OTC.
