Rigoletto 1981
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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.
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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Full Cast & Crew... Rigoletto
... Il Duca di Mantua
... Gilda
... Sparafucile
... Maddalena
... Marullo
Release Date:
Dec 15, 1981 (United States)
Run Time:
2hr 5`
MMPA Rating:
PG
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United States
Status:
Released
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Cast & Crew of
Rigoletto
Directors & Credit Writers
JD
John Dexter... Director
... Director
Cast
... Rigoletto
... Il Duca di Mantua
... Gilda
... Sparafucile
... Maddalena
... Marullo
... Giovanna
BN
Betsy Norden... Countess Ceprano
... Count Ceprano
... Borsa
RJC
Richard J. Clark... Monterone
... Self - Conductor
... A page
PDP
Paul de Paola... Chief guard
...
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Rigoletto
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