Rigoletto (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.
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- John Dexter
- Brian Large
Writing:
- Victor Hugo
- Francesco Maria Piave
Stars:
Release Date: 1981-12-15
- Country: US
- Language: Italiano
- Runtime: 125
Il Duca di Mantua
Self - Conductor
Rigoletto
Maddalena
Gilda
