Louis Quilico
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.
Release Date | 1981-12-15 |
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Runtime | 2h 5m |
Directors | John Dexter, Brian Large, James Levine, Jay David Saks |
Producers | Michael Bronson, Michael Bronson, Karen Adler Barbosa, Clemente D'Alessio |
Writers | Francesco Maria Piave, Victor Hugo |