Letters from Opera Lovers Bravo on your letter to Opera Colorado, which I learned about in today's Denver Post article about Rigoletto! I agree. The updating by this outfit is getting tiresome, and I find it rather insulting, too. Good thing you didn't get surprised by going to see Julius Caesar--it was bizarre. I'm a subscriber but I don't know how much longer I can hold out. CU Opera is a lot more interesting these days. It looks like you made it to the bigtime, even getting a mention in The Denver Post for your opinions about The Barber of Seville. It's unfortunate that Opera Colorado didn't give you a couple of complementary tickets. If they had, you could have gone to see Rigoletto. I think that you would have really enjoyed their 'updated' staging of Rigoletto. OK, maybe there would have been one or two items that bothered you. Such as they forget that Rigoletto is supposed to be a cripple, and instead he was the biggest, toughest guy on the stage who pushed around the other characters (maybe they should have given him a cane?). And that the Duke, the richest, most powerful man in the city, had a house whose walls were apparently made of corrugated tin. And, since they portrayed all the female characters except for Rigoletto's daugher as prostitutes, it did lead to a little confusion about why men who frequented prostitutes would be outraged by another man having a mistress. OK, and why Rigoletto's daughter, after seeing the Duke cavorting with prostitutes, one of whom she knew to be a hitman's sister, still wanted to die to save his life wasn't fully explained. You sure missed a good show - NOT. We're glad to see that we're not the only ones who are disgusted with Opera Colorado. We've tried without success to get Opera Colorado to tell us in advance if they are tampering with the time period of an opera. The final straw was Don Giovanni, and we vowed we would never buy tickets again. Luckily we didn't have to sit through the travesty of Barber. Opera Colorado has completely gone mad...or cheap. Rigoletto was great music, appalling theatre. Julius Ceasar was an absurdity, completely ridiculous..and still good music. We have been subscibers since the first season and are seriously joining all of our friends who have decided not to renew. It is only the lure of the new Opera House that keeps us wishing to maintain our seats.