Rigoletto 1981

Yes, the King arrives, eventually!

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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
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