Verdi: Rigoletto
movie
Yes, the King arrives, eventually!
Released December 15, 1981
Overview
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.
Cast
Louis Quilico
as
Rigoletto
Luciano Pavarotti
as
Il Duca di Mantua
Christiane Eda-Pierre
as
Gilda
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Ara Berberian
as
Sparafucile
Isola Jones
as
Maddalena
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John Darrenkamp
as
Marullo
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Batyah Godfrey
as
Giovanna
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Betsy Norden
as
Countess Ceprano
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Norman Andersson
as
Count Ceprano
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Charles Anthony
as
Borsa
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Richard J. Clark
as
Monterone
James Levine
as
Self - Conductor
Crew
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John Dexter
as
Director
Giuseppe Verdi
as
Original Music Composer
Brian Large
as
Director
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Michael Bronson
as
Producer
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Francesco Maria Piave
as
Writer
Victor Hugo
as
Original Story
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John Dexter
as
Production Design
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Gil Wechsler
as
Lighting Design
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Norbert Vesak
as
Choreographer
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Anthony A. Bliss
as
General Manager
James Levine
as
Music Director
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Nina Lawson
as
Hairstylist