Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)
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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.
| Duration | 2h 5m |
| Country | United States of America |
| Release | 15 Dec 1981 |
| Language | EN |
| Director | Brian Large, John Dexter |
| Keywords | opera verdi |
| Type | Movie Released |
