
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
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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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