Rigoletto

 

June 18, 2022

Fumbling around on the TV last night, I found the Met’s Rigoletto, watching with admiration and fascination. Here was storytelling as I understand it. I resented the brief act breaks. Singing choruses from Rigoletto was what ended my notion of maybe being a composer of some sort. A composer I didn’t particularly admire was subtler and stronger and smarter in every note measure than I could ever be, so why go on? My mistake was not to admire the composer far more than I did.