Verdi: Rigoletto
Yes, the King arrives, eventually!
125 mins
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.
Ara Berberian
Sparafucile
John Darrenkamp
Marullo
Batyah Godfrey
Giovanna
Betsy Norden
Countess Ceprano
Norman Andersson
Count Ceprano
Charles Anthony
Borsa
Richard J. Clark
Monterone
Nadyne Brewer
A page
Paul de Paola
Chief guard
John Dexter
Director
Michael Bronson
Producer
Francesco Maria Piave
Writer
John Dexter
Production Design
Christina Calamari
Wardrobe Master
Clemente D'Alessio
Producer
Karen Adler Barbosa
Associate Producer
Anthony A. Bliss
General Manager
Victor Callegari
Makeup Artist
Michael Bronson
Executive Producer
Gil Wechsler
Lighting Design
Norbert Vesak
Choreographer
Nina Lawson
Hairstylist
Tanya Moiseiwitsch
Costume Designer
Tanya Moiseiwitsch
Set Designer