Richard Bacon is Monterone

Richard has enjoyed singing operatic roles for the past 30 years or so and has appeared in a wide variety of shows with around 20 amateur companies in areas such as South London, Surrey, Kent, Berkshire and of course here in Sussex. He has sung in 6 productions with Heber Opera, most recently in Dvorak’s “Rusalka” when he gave a very moving portrayal as the Water Gnome.

We are delighted to have Richard ( or Dick as we know him) back with us for our forthcoming production of Verdi’s Rigoletto when he will perform the role of Monterone, a respectable and honourable gentleman whose young daughter has been badly treated and abandoned by Duke. Denouncing Duke as a lewd scoundrel and seeking justice for his daughter Monterone is mocked and treated with great disrespect by both Duke and Rigoletto and consequently delivers a curse on the two men. Duke shrugs it off but the curse deeply affects Rigoletto and becomes the over-riding theme of the events that follow.