Sparafucile

Aurelio Dominguez was a fresh if occasionally pinched-sounding Duke and Nathan Stark, a resonant and commanding bass, was a nicely menacing Sparafucile, the assassin.

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He began singing with a madrigal group at 14, made his concert debut at 17, won a scholarship to a music academy in Milan, and in 1941 made his operatic debut singing Sparafucile in Verdi's "Rigoletto," an awfully low role for your average teenager.

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David Soar and Leah-Marian Jones were a killer-team as Sparafucile and Maddalena.

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The jester Rigoletto was on his way home, brooding on the curse pronounced by Monterone, when he encountered the assassin Sparafucile, sung by Nicolai Ghiaurov.

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Sparafucile still offered his services, Rigoletto still refused, and Gilda still eventually wound up dead.

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He thought of Sparafucile the assassin, feeling a strange kinship with the character.

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Although the act's central business concerns the callowness of the Duke (nicely sung by Roberto Aronica) and the impending disaster that will befall Rigoletto and Gilda (ably performed by Franz Grundheber and Hei-Kyung Hong), I found myself far more interestedinthewickedallureofSergei Koptchak's Sparafucile and Daniela Barcellona's Maddalena.

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Sparafucile declares that he will wait until midnight, and will spare him, if another victim should turn up before then.

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Sparafucile decoys him into his inn, where his sister Maddalena awaits him.

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She comes to the inn in masculine attire, and hearing the discourse between Sparafucile and his sister, resolves to save her lover.

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