Rigoletto
en
PG-13
December 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.
Runtime:
2 hours 5 minutes
Status:
Released
Original Language:
en
Budget:
N/A
Revenue:
N/A
Director:
John Dexter
