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.
Full Cast of Rigoletto
Louis Quilico
as Rigoletto
Luciano Pavarotti
as Il Duca di Mantua
Luciano Pavarotti Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career c...
Ara Berberian
as Sparafucile
John Darrenkamp
as Marullo
Batyah Godfrey
as Giovanna
Betsy Norden
as Countess Ceprano
Norman Andersson
as Count Ceprano
Charles Anthony
as Borsa
Richard J. Clark
as Monterone
Nadyne Brewer
as A page
Paul de Paola
as Chief guard
Crew of Rigoletto
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