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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director

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directing

Brian Large
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director

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directing

John Dexter
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original story

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writing

Victor Hugo
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writer

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writing

Francesco Maria Piave
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actor

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actors

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Rigoletto

Louis Quilico
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actor

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actors

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Il Duca di Mantua

Luciano Pavarotti
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actor

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actors

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Gilda

Christiane Eda-Pierre
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actor

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actors

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Sparafucile

Ara Berberian
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actor

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actors

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Maddalena

Isola Jones
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actor

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actors

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Marullo

John Darrenkamp
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actor

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actors

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Giovanna

Batyah Godfrey
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actor

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actors

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Countess Ceprano

Betsy Norden
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actor

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actors

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Count Ceprano

Norman Andersson
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actor

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actors

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Borsa

Charles Anthony
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actor

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actors

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Monterone

Richard J. Clark
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actor

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actors

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Self - Conductor

James Levine
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actor

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actors

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A page

Nadyne Brewer
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actor

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actors

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Chief guard

Paul de Paola
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actor

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actors

MET Orchestra

Verdi: Rigoletto

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