Verdi: Rigoletto (1981)
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.
Directors: John Dexter, Brian Large.
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Louis Quilico as Rigoletto |
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Luciano Pavarotti as Il Duca di Mantua |
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Christiane Eda-Pierre as Gilda |
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Ara Berberian as Sparafucile |
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Isola Jones as Maddalena |
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John Darrenkamp as Marullo |
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Batyah Godfrey as Giovanna |
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Betsy Norden as Countess Ceprano |
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Norman Andersson as Count Ceprano |
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Charles Anthony as Borsa |
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Richard J. Clark as Monterone |
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James Levine as Self - Conductor |
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Nadyne Brewer as A page |
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Paul de Paola as Chief guard |
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MET Orchestra as |
| Directing | John Dexter | Director |
| Production | Michael Bronson | Producer |
| Writing | Francesco Maria Piave | Writer |
| Sound | Giuseppe Verdi | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Victor Hugo | Original Story |
| Directing | Brian Large | Director |
| Art | John Dexter | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Christina Calamari | Wardrobe Master |
| Sound | James Levine | Music Director |
| Production | Clemente D'Alessio | Producer |
| Production | Karen Adler Barbosa | Associate Producer |
| Production | Anthony A. Bliss | General Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Victor Callegari | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Michael Bronson | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Jay David Saks | Sound Director |
| Lighting | Gil Wechsler | Lighting Design |
| Crew | Norbert Vesak | Choreographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nina Lawson | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tanya Moiseiwitsch | Costume Designer |
| Art | Tanya Moiseiwitsch | Set Designer |
