Guest: Noluvuyiso Mpofu, South African Opera Singer Host: Linzi Bourhill, Cape Talk, Late Nights Topic: A shockingly fresh, exciting and gritty Rigoletto. Visionary director Marthinus Basson launches CTO’s 2017 season with an unflinching new staging of Verdi’s dark melodrama. Metropolitan Opera regular Fikile Mvinjelwa returns to Cape Town to play the hunchbacked jester, with Belvedere Singing Competition finalists Noluvuyiso Mpofu and Lukhanyo Moyake making their role debuts as his daughter Gilda and the licentious Duke of Mantua.