Verdi: Rigoletto
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View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Ara Berberian · Batyah Godfrey · Betsy Norden · Charles Anthony · Christiane Eda-Pierre · Isola Jones · John Darrenkamp · Louis Quilico · Luciano Pavarotti · Norman Andersson · Brian Large · John Dexter · Francesco Maria Piave