Verdi: Rigoletto
Release Date: 1981-12-15
Overview: The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly alternate with scenes of darkness and squalor. From sumptuous interiors, we move to a dark street, a lonely inn. The secondary figures are astutely counterpoised: the plotting courtiers against the plotting Sparafucile and Maddalena (also ambiguously tender-hearted). When Rigoletto says "Pari siamo", he could be expressing the motto of the whole work: the beautiful and the ugly can be equally good, equally evil.
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Cast
Louis Quilico
as Rigoletto
Luciano Pavarotti
as Il Duca di Mantua
Christiane Eda-Pierre
as Gilda
Ara Berberian
as Sparafucile
Isola Jones
as Maddalena
Crew
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Giuseppe Verdi - Original Music Composer
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Michael Bronson - Producer
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Francesco Maria Piave - Writer
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Brian Large - Director
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John Dexter - Director
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