Verdi: Rigoletto(1981)
movie - first aired/released 1981-12-15 - 125 min
Directed by Brian Large, John Dexter
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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Cast
Louis QuilicoRigoletto
Luciano PavarottiIl Duca di Mantua
Christiane Eda-PierreGilda- Ara BerberianSparafucile
Isola JonesMaddalena- John DarrenkampMarullo
- Batyah GodfreyGiovanna
- Betsy NordenCountess Ceprano
- Norman AnderssonCount Ceprano
- Charles AnthonyBorsa
- Richard J. ClarkMonterone
James LevineSelf - Conductor- Nadyne BrewerA page
- Paul de PaolaChief guard
MET Orchestra
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