Verdi: Rigoletto
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.
Top Billed Cast
Louis Quilico
Rigoletto
Luciano Pavarotti
Il Duca di Mantua
Christiane Eda-Pierre
Gilda
Ara Berberian
Sparafucile
Isola Jones
Maddalena
Featured Crew
John Dexter
Director
Michael Bronson
Producer
Francesco Maria Piave
Writer
Giuseppe Verdi
Original Music Composer
Victor Hugo
Original Story
Brian Large
Director
John Dexter
Production Design
Christina Calamari
Wardrobe Master
James Levine
Music Director
Clemente D'Alessio
Producer
Karen Adler Barbosa
Associate Producer
Anthony A. Bliss
General Manager
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