Rigoletto (1981)
Yes, the King arrives, eventually!
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.
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Louis QuilicoRigoletto
Luciano PavarottiIl Duca di MantuaChristiane Eda-PierreGildaAra BerberianSparafucileIsola JonesMaddalenaJohn DarrenkampMarulloBatyah GodfreyGiovannaBetsy NordenCountess CepranoNorman AnderssonCount CepranoCharles AnthonyBorsaRichard J. ClarkMonterone
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What is Rigoletto about?
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.
How long is Rigoletto?
Rigoletto has a runtime of 125 minutes.
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