From the start, even the Victor Hugo play that
Rigoletto is based on,
Le roi s’amuse, was banned by the censors after its first performance. When Verdi adapted the play into an Italian opera, he changed Hugo’s immoral, womanizing French King into an imaginary 16th century Duke from an extinct family line in order to make it “acceptable.” This time-honored tale of seduction and bitter revenge is boldly imagined in this new production by Minnesota Opera. The disfigured jester Rigoletto must do everything in his power to protect his innocent daughter from the lecherous Duke of Mantua before she falls into his clutches.
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A Burlington County couple has been arrested in connection with a collision that killed a 72-year-old man from Browns Mills two days after Christmas, authorities said.
New Jersey State Police matched paint found on the victim s clothing with paint on the Nissan Pathfinder suspected of running the man over on Dec. 27, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Pemberton Township Police Chief David King.
Tonya Brown, 35, of Kinsley Road has been charged with striking and killing the pedestrian as he was crossing Lakehurst Road, they said. She did not have a driver s license, they said.
Brown s 44-year-old husband, Victor, has been charged with helping her try to conceal the crime, Coffina and King said.
2-hour manhunt leaves graves damaged, Tri-State community rattled
Authorities say the suspect drove through a fence and damaged two graves in Lynchburg.
gravestones damaged by stolen pickup during police chase By Courtney King | December 29, 2020 at 8:49 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 10:32 PM
HIGHLAND COUNTY, Ohio (FOX19) - A man is behind bars tonight after authorities say he led police on a two-hour manhunt and damage multiple graves at a local cemetery.
Police in Lynchburg say the chase began late Monday afternoon after Clinton County authorities made them aware of a stolen truck that could have been in the area.
Officers say they found the truck, after which the driver took off, driving through a field, people’s lawns and then a cemetery.