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Rigoletto (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.
Keywords: tmdb.opera,
tmdb.verdi
Production companies: Decca
Country: United States
Languages:
Italian,
English
Runtime: 125 min.
Released: Dec. 15, 1981
Status: Released
Certification: PG / 11+
