Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)
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.
- Released
- 1981-12-15
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Brian Large, John Dexter
Cast
- Louis Quilico as Rigoletto
- Luciano Pavarotti as Il Duca di Mantua
- Christiane Eda-Pierre as Gilda
- Ara Berberian as Sparafucile
- Isola Jones as Maddalena
- John Darrenkamp as Marullo
- Batyah Godfrey as Giovanna
- Betsy Norden as Countess Ceprano
- Norman Andersson as Count Ceprano
- Charles Anthony as Borsa
- Richard J. Clark as Monterone
- James Levine as Self - Conductor