Rigoletto 43 years old
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.
Credits
Rigoletto Cast
Name | Character |
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Luciano Pavarotti He was 46, 71 years old when he died | as Il Duca |
Isola Jones She was 31, now 74 years old | as Maddalena |
Charles Anthony He was 52, 82 years old when he died | as Borsa |
Rigoletto Crew
Name | Department |
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Giuseppe Verdi as Original Music Composer. He was 168 (87) years old when He died | Sound |
Victor Hugo as Original Story. He was 179 (83) years old when He died | Writing |
Brian Large as Director. He was 42 (now 85) years old | Directing |
Francesco Maria Piave as Writer. He was 171 (65) years old when He died | Writing |
John Dexter as Director. He was 56 (64) years old when He died | Directing |