Verdi: Rigoletto
"Yes, the King arrives, eventually!"
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast8

Louis Quilico
Rigoletto

Luciano Pavarotti
Il Duca di Mantua

Christiane Eda-Pierre
Gilda
Ara Berberian
Sparafucile

Isola Jones
Maddalena
John Darrenkamp
Marullo
Batyah Godfrey
Giovanna
Betsy Norden
Countess Ceprano
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John Dexter
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