1981
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2h 5m
Genres
Production Companies
Decca
Verdi: Rigoletto
Yes, the King arrives, eventually!
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: John Dexter, Brian Large
Producer: Michael Bronson, Clemente D'Alessio
Writer: Francesco Maria Piave
