Giuseppe Verdi's controversial opera "Rigoletto" premiered in Venice in 1832 and was based on the play "Le roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo. On Saturday, Jan. 30, a new production of by the State Opera and young Czech director Barbora Horáková Joly, winner of the prestigious British International Opera Award 2018 in the Discovery of the Year category, will be broadcast live on Czech Television (20:00). “We want to focus on the title character, what led him to serve a bored, amoral, and decadent male society, in which all values collapse,” says the director.