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Rigoletto

0 %|Dec 15, 1981|

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.

Featured Crew

John Dexter
Director
Giuseppe Verdi
Original Music Composer
Brian Large
Director
Michael Bronson
Producer
Francesco Maria Piave
Writer
Victor Hugo
Original Story
John Dexter
Production Design
Gil Wechsler
Lighting Design

Cast