Rigoletto (1956 film) explained

Producer:	Francesco Granata-Vigo
Editing:	Otello Colangeli
Studio:	Diva Film
Distributor:	Felix Film
Runtime:	91 minutes
Country:	Italy

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.^{[1] [2]}

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

Notes and References

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