Overview
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.
| Actor | Age then | Age now | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 56 | July 14, 2000 (75) | |
 | 46 | September 6, 2007 (71) | |
 | 49 | September 6, 2020 (88) | |
 | - | - | |
 | 31 | 75 | |
| - | - | |
| - | - | |
| 36 | 79 | |
| - | - | |
| 52 | February 15, 2012 (82) |