M O V I E
Verdi: Rigoletto [408735]
Released: 1981-12-15
Genres:
Revenue: unknown
Cast: 15
Popularity: 0.1758
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Synopsis : 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.
Louis Quilico
Luciano Pavarotti
Christiane Eda-Pie
Ara Berberian
Isola Jones
John Darrenkamp
Batyah Godfrey
Betsy Norden
Norman Andersson
Charles Anthony
Richard J. Clark
James Levine
Nadyne Brewer
Paul de Paola
MET Orchestra

Director

John Dexter