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Rigoletto

0% | Dec 15, 1981 |

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.

Featured Crew

Giuseppe Verdi
Original Music Composer
Michael Bronson
Producer

Cast

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Louis Quilico
Rigoletto
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Luciano Pavarotti
Il Duca di Mantua
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Ara Berberian
Sparafucile
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Isola Jones
Maddalena

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