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Rigoletto 1981 Free Unlimited Access
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.
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Cast: Louis Quilico, Luciano Pavarotti, Christiane Eda-Pierre, Ara Berberian, Isola Jones, John Darrenkamp
Crew: John Dexter (Director), Giuseppe Verdi (Original Music Composer), Brian Large (Director), Michael Bronson (Producer), Francesco Maria Piave (Writer), Victor Hugo (Original Story)
Studio: Decca
Runtime: 125 minutes
Quality: HD
Release: Dec 15, 1981
Country: United States of America
Language: Italiano