Rigoletto
1981
Rated PG
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“Yes, the King arrives, eventually!”
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.
CANYON
