Verdi: Rigoletto [408735] Released: 1981-12-15 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 125 mins Popularity: 0.3437 Vote Average: 0 Vote Count: 0 Overview: 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. Cast [15] Louis QuilicoRigoletto Luciano PavarottiIl Duca di Mantu Christiane Eda-PierreGilda Ara BerberianSparafucile Isola JonesMaddalena John DarrenkampMarullo Batyah GodfreyGiovanna Betsy NordenCountess Ceprano Norman AnderssonCount Ceprano Charles AnthonyBorsa Richard J. ClarkMonterone James LevineSelf - Conductor Nadyne BrewerA page Paul de PaolaChief guard MET Orchestra Trailers