OPERA San Antonio welcomed audiences back after the COVID-19 shutdown with a production of Rigoletto — one that was originally scheduled for pre-pandemic times but turned out to be ideal for 2022 in many ways. Though it was written in 1851, the themes remain apposite. “There are difficult topics that have to do with political corruption, young innocence, naïve love, and how feeling trapped by circumstances can compel a young person to make really cataclysmic choices,” says General and Artistic Director E. Loren Meeker.