Vashon Opera will present Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent “Rigoletto” for two performances only, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 5, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 7, in the Kay White Hall of Vashon Center for the Arts.

Daniel O’Hearn will sing the role of the Duke of Mantua. O’Hearn is an emerging full lyric tenor with a powerful Italianate ring. Hailing from Chicago, O’Hearn is currently a resident artist with Pittsburgh Opera in Pittsburgh.

Soprano Ksenia Popova, performing as Gilda, has sung the roles of Gretel (“Hansel and Gretel”) with Pacific Northwest Opera, Josephine (“H.M.S Pinafore”) with Opera Coeur d’Alene, and Adele (“Die Fledermaus”) with Vashon Opera.

Baritone Andrew Krikaka, Vashon Opera mainstay and co-founder, will sing the role of Rigoletto. Hailed by Opera News as an “accomplished performer possessing an attractive, cultivated baritone, with well-honed acting,” Krikawa has sung for numerous companies including New York City Opera and Pittsburgh Opera.

Get tickets, find out more about the principal singers in the opera, and read extensive program notes to prepare for Verdi’s magnificent, ground-breaking opera — filled with mayhem, mockery, misinformation and murder — at vashonopera.org.