The title role in Rigoletto has a special problem. As Tito Gobbi, the great baritone who sang the role many times, succinctly described it: "That damned hump!" Rigoletto is the hunchbacked jester of ...

‘In these few words you have the description of the whole situation’, says Tito Gobbi. No – not in an aria, but in the opening words of, on the face of it, casual banter between the Duke of Mantua and ...