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A recent episode of “60 Minutes” featured Metropolitan Opera’s imaginative new take on Giuseppe Verdi’s three act opera, “Rigoletto.” “Rigoletto” tells the timeless story of who-the-hell-knows-what. Blah blah licentious duke blah blah curse blah blah seduction blah blah assassins. What we do know for certain is New York’s Metropolitan Opera recently re-imagined this classic opera […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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