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Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)
Directed by Brian Large, John Dexter
“Yes, the King arrives, eventually!”
· 2h 05m
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
Louis Quilico
Rigoletto
Luciano Pavarotti
Il Duca di Mantua
Christiane Eda-Pierre
Gilda
A
Ara Berberian
Sparafucile
Isola Jones
Maddalena
J
John Darrenkamp
Marullo
B
Batyah Godfrey
Giovanna
B
Betsy Norden
Countess Ceprano
N
Norman Andersson
Count Ceprano
C
Charles Anthony
Borsa
R
Richard J. Clark
Monterone
James Levine
Self - Conductor
Crew
- Director
- Brian Large, John Dexter
- Writer
- Francesco Maria Piave
- Original Music Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Producer
- Michael Bronson, Clemente D'Alessio
Details
- Release date
- 1981-12-15
- Runtime
- 2h 05m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Decca