Verdi: Rigoletto

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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United States of America

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Duration:

125 minutes

Year:

1981

Director:

Brian Large

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Company:

Decca

Cast:

Rigoletto

Il Duca di Mantua

Gilda

Sparafucile

Maddalena

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