Verdi: Rigoletto
1981 · 125 min
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.
Crew
- Director John Dexter
- Director Brian Large
- Writer Francesco Maria Piave
Cast
Louis Quilico
Rigoletto
Luciano Pavarotti
Il Duca di Mantua
Christiane Eda-Pierre
Gilda
- A
Ara Berberian
Sparafucile
Isola Jones
Maddalena
- J
John Darrenkamp
Marullo
- B
Batyah Godfrey
Giovanna
- B
Betsy Norden
Countess Ceprano
- N
Norman Andersson
Count Ceprano
- C
Charles Anthony
Borsa
- R
Richard J. Clark
Monterone
James Levine
Self - Conductor
Crew
- Director — John Dexter
- Director — Brian Large
- Writer — Francesco Maria Piave
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