Rigoletto

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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Louis Quilico

Rigoletto

Luciano Pavarotti

Il Duca di Mantua

Ara Berberian

Sparafucile

Isola Jones

Maddalena

Batyah Godfrey

Giovanna

Betsy Norden

Countess Ceprano

Norman Andersson

Count Ceprano

James Levine

Self - Conductor

Paul de Paola

Chief guard

Art

John Dexter

Production Design

Tanya Moiseiwitsch

Set Designer

Costume & Make-Up

Victor Callegari

Makeup Artist

Nina Lawson

Hairstylist

Christina Calamari

Wardrobe Master

Tanya Moiseiwitsch

Costume Designer

Crew

Norbert Vesak

Choreographer

Directing

Brian Large

Director

John Dexter

Director

Lighting

Gil Wechsler

Lighting Design

Production

Anthony A. Bliss

General Manager

Michael Bronson

Executive Producer

Karen Adler Barbosa

Associate Producer

Sound

Giuseppe Verdi

Original Music Composer

James Levine

Music Director

Jay David Saks

Sound Director

Writing

Victor Hugo

Original Story

Art

John Dexter

Production Design

Tanya Moiseiwitsch

Set Designer

Costume & Make-Up

Victor Callegari

Makeup Artist

Nina Lawson

Hairstylist

Christina Calamari

Wardrobe Master

Tanya Moiseiwitsch

Costume Designer

Crew

Norbert Vesak

Choreographer

Directing

Brian Large

Director

John Dexter

Director

Lighting

Gil Wechsler

Lighting Design

Production

Anthony A. Bliss

General Manager

Michael Bronson

Executive Producer

Karen Adler Barbosa

Associate Producer

Sound

Giuseppe Verdi

Original Music Composer

James Levine

Music Director

Jay David Saks

Sound Director

Writing

Victor Hugo

Original Story