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Review title: Cheap, ugly.
Product review: Marcello Alvarez is about as harsh and unlistenable a bellowing tenor as you will find. Grates on the nerves like the cheap, ugly "chicken wire" fence that provides the visual focus for the production. Stark, drab, black/white "scenery" and costumes underscore the overdoing of Rigoletto as monster insect [canes attached to both arms as he "crab-walks" about the stage]. Gavanelli seems to have a good voice, but once you have heard Sherrill Milnes in the part, with his beautifully expressive voice, giving us a Rigoletto as flawed, but touchingly vulnerable, you will probably be unsatisfied with crude black/white versions. Is the director on an absurdly tight budget, or is he afraid that current morality might miss the point that the Duke and company are immoral?
