Rigoletto 42 years old

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.

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Rigoletto Cast

Name	Character
Luciano Pavarotti He was 46, 71 years old when he died	as Il Duca
Charles Anthony He was 52, 82 years old when he died	as Borsa
Isola Jones She was 31, now 74 years old	as Maddalena

Rigoletto Crew

Name	Department
Giuseppe Verdi as Original Music Composer. He was 168 (87) years old when He died	Sound
Victor Hugo as Original Story. He was 179 (83) years old when He died	Writing
Brian Large as Director. He was 42 (now 85) years old	Directing
Francesco Maria Piave as Writer. He was 171 (65) years old when He died	Writing
John Dexter as Director. He was 56 (64) years old when He died	Directing