Rigoletto
Rigoletto | Royal Ballet and Opera, Linbury Theatre | 2026
Conductor: Sir Mark Elder
Director: Oliver Mears
Associate/Revival Director: Sophie Gilpin
Set Designer: Simon Lima Holdsworth
Costume Designer: Ilona Karas
Lighting Designer: Fabiana Piccioli
Movement Director: Anna Morrissey
Rigoletto: George Petean / Daniel Luis de Vincente
Gilda: Aida Garifullina / Rosa Feola / Robyn Allegra Parton
Duke: Iván Ayón Rivas / Liparit Avetisyan
Sparafucile: William Thomas / Alexander Köpeczi
Maddalena: Anne Marie Stanley / Elena Maximova
Monterone: Blaise Malaba / Willard White
Giovanna: Jingwen Cai / Veena Akama-Makia
Marullo: Sam Hird / Spike Kwani
Borsa: Emmanuel Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono / Emyr Lloyd Jones
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Reviews
"devastating, ill-fated, and elemental… done at its very best."
★★★★★ LONDON THEATRE
"Strong revival of Mears' violent take"
★★★★ THE GUARDIAN
“a tightly directed revival, carefully choreographed and with a sense of energy running throughout it”
★★★★ BACHTRACK
“this production is keen to remind us of the depravity of Mantua’s imagined sexually lascivious and violent court"
★★★★.5 LONDON UNATTACHED