Verdi: Rigoletto

“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.

Direção

John Dexter

Música

Giuseppe Verdi

Direção

Brian Large

Roteiro

Francesco Maria Piave

Status

Lançado

Lançamento

15/12/1981

Idioma original

Inglês