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Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)

Name: Verdi: Rigoletto
Director: Brian Large
Released: 1981-12-15

"Yes, the King arrives, eventually!"

Year 19812h 5m

Verdi: Rigoletto is a 1981 film directed by Brian Large. It features Louis Quilico, Luciano Pavarotti, Christiane Eda-Pierre in lead roles. The film carries a runtime of 2h 5m. It does not currently have an official streaming source listed for India.

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.