The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto premiered this this winter to rave reviews—including its set design by Christine Jones, known for her Broadway shows Hands on a Hardbody and the Tony award-winning American Idiot. Rigoletto’s director Michael Mayer has placed the staging of the opera in 1960s Las Vegas, rather than late Renaissance Mantua as originally conceived for the 1851 opening. Architects have responded enthusiastically to the glitzy “Rat Pack” aura of the Vegas sets at the Met. George Miller, partner of Pei Cobb Freed, recently urged William Pedersen of Kohn Pedersen Fox to see it: "Rigoletto's first act has a dynamic, colorful, and explosive set that instantly transports you from Lincoln Center to Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas!" he exclaimed to Pedersen.
In a recent interview, Record discussed the new production with Jones, who besides designing for opera and stage, is on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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