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Verdi: Rigoletto

"Yes, the King arrives, eventually!"

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 Cast

  • Louis Quilico

    Louis Quilico

    Rigoletto

  • Luciano Pavarotti

    Luciano Pavarotti

    Il Duca di Mantua

  • Christiane Eda-Pierre

    Christiane Eda-Pierre

    Gilda

  • Ara Berberian

    Ara Berberian

    Sparafucile

  • Isola Jones

    Isola Jones

    Maddalena

  • John Darrenkamp

    John Darrenkamp

    Marullo

  • Batyah Godfrey

    Batyah Godfrey

    Giovanna

  • Betsy Norden

    Betsy Norden

    Countess Ceprano

  • Norman Andersson

    Norman Andersson

    Count Ceprano

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.

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