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Rigoletto

Rigoletto

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 15, 1981

Runtime

2h 5m

Original Title

Rigoletto

Production Companies

Decca

Director

John Dexter

Description

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.