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
Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025
On the south side, the new spaces are between Royer Avenue and Rigoletto Street and Fallbrook and Ponce.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023
“He’s a Rigoletto of enormous cruelty and empathy,” Gelb said.
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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