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Rigoletto
Directed by	Flavio Calzavara
Written by	Flavio Calzavara Jacopo Corsi Paola Ojetti
Produced by	Francesco Granata-Vigo
Starring	Aldo Silvani Gérard Landry Loris Gizzi
Cinematography	Bitto Albertini
Edited by	Otello Colangeli
Music by	Giuseppe Verdi
Production company	Diva Film
Distributed by	Felix Film
Release date	1956 (1956)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Rigoletto or Rigoletto and His Tragedy (Italian: Rigoletto e la sua tragedia) is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma. It is based on the 1851 Giuseppe Verdi opera Rigoletto and incorporated music from that work.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Franco Lolli.

Cast

• Aldo Silvani as Rigoletto
• Janet Vidor as Gilda
• Gérard Landry as Duke of Mantua
• Loris Gizzi as Count of Ceprano
• Cesare Polacco as Sparafucile
• Franca Tamantini as Maddalena
• Gualtiero Tumiati as Count of Monterone
• Nietta Zocchi as Giovanna
• Vittorio Vaser as Marullo
• Renato Chiantoni as The Poet
• Mario Terribile as Borsa

References

1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
2. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.

External links

• Rigoletto at IMDb

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