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Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)

Verdi: Rigoletto

Subtitles for: Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)

"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.

Duration2h 5m
CountryUnited States of America
Release15 Dec 1981
LanguageEN
DirectorJohn Dexter, Brian Large
Keywordsoperaverdi
TypeMovie Released

Cast

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Louis QuilicoRigoletto
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Luciano PavarottiIl Duca di Mantua
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Christiane Eda-PierreGilda
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Ara BerberianSparafucile
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Isola JonesMaddalena
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John DarrenkampMarullo
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Batyah GodfreyGiovanna
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Betsy NordenCountess Ceprano
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Norman AnderssonCount Ceprano
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Charles AnthonyBorsa
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