Verdi: Rigoletto

Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)

Yes, the King arrives, eventually!

TMDb

0.0

15/12/1981 • 2h 5m
original-title

Verdi: Rigoletto

status

Released

production-companies

Decca

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

-

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.

production-countries

United States of America

spoken-languages

Italian

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