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Verdi: Rigoletto

Verdi: Rigoletto

19812h 5m

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Released

Release

1981

Runtime

2h 5m

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Storyline

"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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
2h 5m
Dec 15, 1981
Languages
Italian
Director
John Dexter
Brian Large
Brian Large
Production
Decca
Decca
Production Countries
United States of America

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