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.
as Rigoletto
as Il Duca di Mantua
as Gilda
as Sparafucile
as Maddalena
as Marullo
as Giovanna
as Countess Ceprano
as Count Ceprano
as Borsa
as Monterone
as Self - Conductor
as A page
as Chief guard
