Rigoletto review: Light touch makes for enjoyable production of Verdi's classic 

British soprano Soraya Mafi is among the stand-out performers in this staging by Irish National Opera

Michael Chioldi in Irish National Opera’s Rigoletto, at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin. Picture: Patrick  Redmond

Rigoletto, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin ★★★★☆

Rigoletto is an opera that could easily set out to shock the audience, or at least lean into the sordid world the libretto sketches. Any director, after all, is free to push the envelope in our anything-goes era; but also, to contextualise for a post-Me-Too time, where tales of scandalous behaviour and abuse in high places seem to crop up with depressing frequency.