TORONTO -- It's a pretty production. Finally, however, it's the singing and the music that together make the Canadian Opera Company's current production of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto worth seeing -- and in a world devoid of CDs and DVDs, that might be just the ticket.

But in today's world, the near-perfect vocal and instrumental versions of nearly everything are available at a music store near you, so it behooves opera producers to offer something more to entice an audience away from its home entertainment centre.
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