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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Stars: Louis Quilico, Luciano Pavarotti, Christiane Eda-Pierre, Ara Berberian, Isola Jones, John Darrenkamp
Crew: Giuseppe Verdi (Original Music Composer), Michael Bronson (Producer), Francesco Maria Piave (Writer), Brian Large (Director), John Dexter (Director), Victor Hugo (Original Story)
Country: United States of America
Language: Italiano
Studio: Decca
Runtime: 125 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 15, 1981
IMDb: 10
