Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Pacific Opera Victoria Presents Verdi's RIGOLETTO
April 23, 25, 29 at 7:30 pm April 27, 2:30 pm
At the Royal Theatre
Sung in Italian with English surtitles

CAST (in order of vocal appearance)
Rigoletto | Grant Youngblood
Gilda | Sarah Dufresne
Duke of Mantua | Matthew Pearce
Sparafucile | Matthew Treviño
Maddalena | Marion Newman
Count Monterone | James Demler
Marullo | Justin Welsh
Matteo Borsa | Jan van der Hooft
Count Ceprano | Andrew Greenwood
Countess Ceprano | Jayne Hammond
Giovanna | Rebekah Janzen
Usher | Graeme Linton
Page | Michaela Dickey

With the Victoria Symphony and the Pacific Opera Chorus and Supernumeraries

CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor | Robert Tweten
Stage Director | Glynis Leyshon
Set Designer | James Rotondo
Costume Designer | Pam Johnson
Lighting Designer | Gerald King
Chorus Director & Assistant Conductor | Giuseppe Pietraroia
Fight Director | Jacques Lemay
Intimacy Director | Treena Stubel
Stage Manager | Christopher Sibbald
Assistant Stage Manager | Giselle Clarke-Trenaman
Assistant Stage Manager | Katerina Sokyrko

Royal Theatre Stage Employees and Running Crew, Members of IATSE Local 168