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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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Aida - Arena di Verona
The Oratorio
The Turn of the Screw
Silentium
Verdi: Don Carlo
Puccini La Rondine
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Svätopluk
Macbeth - Teatro alla Scala
Verdi-Requiem mit Riccardo Muti
Andrea Chenier
La bohème - ROH
Florence Foster Jenkins: A World of Her Own
Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
Antonio Paoli: Rey de Tenores y Tenor de Reyes
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Kouzelný strom
Farinelli
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