Verdi: Rigoletto
Film1981125 min
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Directed by John Dexter, Brian Large
Yes, the King arrives, eventually!
The story
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
Louis QuilicoRigoletto
Luciano PavarottiIl Duca di Mantua
Christiane Eda-PierreAra Berberian
Ara BerberianSparafucile
Isola JonesMaddalenaBatyah Godfrey
Batyah GodfreyGiovannaBetsy Norden
Betsy NordenCountess CepranoNorman Andersson
Norman AnderssonCount CepranoRichard J. Clark
Richard J. ClarkMonterone
James LevineSelf - ConductorExplore the crew
- Director
- John Dexter
- Original Music Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Director
- Brian Large
- Producer
- Michael Bronson
- Writer
- Francesco Maria Piave
- Producer
- Clemente D'Alessio