Product Details

• Actors: Aldo Silvani, Tito Gobbi, Janet Vidor, Pina Arnaldi, Mario Del Monaco
• Directors: Flavio Calzavara
• Format: Classical, Collector's Edition, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
• Language: Italian
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: View Video
• DVD Release Date: April 25, 2003
• Run Time: 130 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009EPB6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #61,077 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Based on Victor Huro's play Le Roi s'amuse
Sung by: Tito Gobbi, Mario Del Monaco, Pina Arnaldi
Starring: Garard Landry, Aldo Silvani, Janet Vidor
The Rome Opera Orchestra conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis

Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera of the trilogy that includes Il Trovatore and La Traviata, is without a doubt one of the most popular operas of all time. It contains some of the world's best-known music, including the aria "La donna e mobile," and the major-key theme from the Quartet, which Kobbe describes "…the finest piece of concerted music in Italian Opera."

A perennial favorite, this drama of intrigue, tragedy and revenge has been a spectacular success from its first performance. The lavish costumes and settings for this romantic and melodramatic feature film version perfectly captures the period and style. The film retains the famous arias and duets in the original Italian, with the dialogue painstakingly dubbed into English. The unforgettable vocal performances of the legendary Tito Gobbi and Mario Del Monaco highlight this Verdi masterpiece.

Duke of Mantua, a libertine tenor
Rigoletto, Duke's jester baritone
Count Ceprano, a nobleman bass
Count Monterone, a nobleman baritone
Sparafucile, an assassin bass
Matteo Borsa, a courtier tenor
Cavaliere Marullo, a courtier baritone
Countess Ceprano mezzo-soprano
Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter soprano
Giovanna, her governess mezzo-soprano

Maddalena, Sparafucile's sister contralto

DVD BONUS FEATURES:
-Over 35 Scene Selections
-Instant Access to Arias
-Verdi Biography
-Rigoletto Story Synopsis
-Rigoletto Trivia
-Bonus Music: ENRICO CARUSO Sings Three Arias from Rigoletto
-Dolby Digital Stereo Audio
-Digitally Mastered Audio & Video

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Do not be fooled..., June 23, 2007

By	Nino Ch Abrahamsen - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mario Del Monaco and Tito Gobbi do perform in this piece... However,this is a film for those who does not really like opera and out of curiosity, just to find out the story, would not mind to sit down and listen to one or two tiny little pieces of the opera along with it. All the beautiful music of Verdi stays in the background, and all the captivating arias, duettos, etc. are simply left out and even The Quartet! You can forget about it, THERE IS NO QUARTET! just a "headline" of it. My 2 stars are not intended to the opera performance, but to the director of the film.

12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Use your money somewhere else, January 14, 2004

By A Customer

This is a very poor, bad recording.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not an Opera, January 12, 2004

By	W. Gillham (Albion, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is not close to an opera. We are given only a few arias and snatches of orchestral passages. The story is nearly left to stand on its own as a movie--which it does not do very well. It falls flat. If you have ever--seeing Shakespeare's OTHELLO--felt the need of Verdi's OTELLO music, you will have a similar, but much stronger, feeling here. The voices are excellent--what little we hear of them. Was orchestral sound no better than this in 1946?