SABC 2 sings for its supper

SABC 2 has confirmed that it has acquired the exclusive television rights to screen Verdi's acclaimed opera Rigoletto on Sunday 19 October at 9pm. Rigoletto, by Guiseppe Verdi with libretto by Franscesco Maria Piave, is based on the novel Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo; it is an opera in three acts, sung in Italian. This local version of the opera, with English subtitles, was performed by Cape Town Opera in the Joseph Stone Auditorium in Athlone, Cape Town, earlier this year.