Rigoletto; Philip Glass at 80 – review

Coliseum; Barbican, London
ENO returns to Jonathan Miller’s classic production. Plus, wall-to-wall GlassThe jukebox is back. And with it the lonely bar, the trench coats, brogues, pocket squares and pinky rings. Jonathan Miller’s 1982 “mafioso” staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto, thought dead but merely sleeping, has returned to open English National Opera’s 2017 season. Richard Armstrong conducts a new cast, staged by revival director Elaine Tyler-Hall. Miller was