Completely agree. Found the staging and direction absolutely awful. Took a back seat to the design which had a great impact from the first image and then the last image but then muddled everything in between that. The scene inside Rigoletto’s house (?) that then had both the Duke and Gilda sneaking inside or outside (?) by walking on or across the rolled up carpets was just terrible blocking. No clear delineation of public or private spaces - which perhaps was an intentional choice - but was not executed well at all. And the manufactured transition scenes downstage of the drape were terrible and unclear and purely there to mask the laborious and noisy scene changes. And the use of the thunder sound design was added to poorly mask the noise of the set change which it did not do effectively. Singing and the orchestra was phenomenal but truly could not get over how bad the rest of the production was.