Movie Description
Rigoletto
(1981)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : John Dexter,Brian Large
- Producer : Michael Bronson,Clemente D'Alessio
- Writer : Francesco Maria Piave
- Cast : Louis Quilico,Luciano Pavarotti,Christiane Eda-Pierre,Ara Berberian,Isola Jones,John Darrenkamp,Batyah Godfrey,Betsy Norden,Norman Andersson,Charles Anthony,Richard J. Clark,James Levine,Nadyne Brewer,Paul de Paola,MET Orchestra
Cast
Rigoletto
Il Duca di Mantua
Gilda
Sparafucile
Maddalena
Marullo
Giovanna
Countess Ceprano
Count Ceprano
Borsa
Monterone
Self - Conductor
A page
Chief guard
Posters
Facts
Original TitleRigoletto
Status Released
Release Information
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1981-12-15
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 02h 05m
Production CompaniesDecca
