Verdi: Rigoletto
“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 Quilico
Rigoletto
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Un Ballo in Maschera
Don Carlo
Luciano Pavarotti
Il Duca di Mantua
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Yes, Giorgio
Verdi: Rigoletto
Christiane Eda-Pierre
Gilda
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Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ara Berberian
Sparafucile
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Carmen
The Ghosts of Versailles
Isola Jones
Maddalena
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Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
Rigoletto
John Darrenkamp
Marullo
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La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera
Francesca da Rimini
Batyah Godfrey
Giovanna
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Betsy Norden
Countess Ceprano
Also in
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
Don Carlo
Norman Andersson
Count Ceprano
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Charles Anthony
Borsa
Also in
Puccini: Turandot
Otello
Richard J. Clark
Monterone
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Simon Boccanegra
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
James Levine
Self - Conductor
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Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
La traviata
Brian Large Director · John Dexter Director Francesco Maria Piave Writer
United States release December 15, 1981 · Produced in United States
Production
Decca
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
United States · December 15, 1981
Theatrical
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