Rigoletto
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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There were dancing human bobbleheads of opera composers Verdi, Puccini and Rossini, as if they were mascots for Team Rigoletto, Team Tosca and Team William Tell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
But her duets with Rigoletto are pregnant with emotion, and she is stunningly angelic in the end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
It takes a lot to love Rigoletto, who keeps his daughter, Gilda, locked up, although she, of course, sneaks out and falls for the count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
It started in 2013, when Kelsey jumped into the title role of the cursed jester in Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” in Zurich; Feola was in that production, too, as Gilda, the daughter Rigoletto has kept secret.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
He found me, to his great relief, not on the toilet, or half-naked, or singing Rigoletto, but propped up in my bed, darning a sweater that Etta had dropped off.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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