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Once you get over the shock that Shakespeare’s immortal masterpiece has been turned into a stereotypical Italian opera of the early 19th century, where minor character Rodrigo, now in love with ...

The curtain rises on the long-awaited operatic production of William Shakespeare’s Otello at the Sydney Opera House. The revival director explains why you should seek it out. Opening on Saturday, the ...

Celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth this year, one of his four tragedies, "Othello," recomposed by Verdi in 1887 into the opera "Otello," will be performed from November 6 to 9 in ...

Het getuigt van artistiek lef om Otello van Giuseppe Verdi, een opera met voornamelijk mannelijke rollen, te bezetten met een geheel vrouwelijke cast. In de theatertent in het Friese Spanga vergeet je ...

There are some strong individual performances in Grange Park's new production, but not yet a sense that these cohere into a convincing whole Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

The brave, noble general Otello is married to the beautiful, spirited Desdemona, but there is someone who would come between them. Enter Iago, the moor’s ensign. Bitter towards his master and jealous ...

Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

“On your knees, and weep!” barks Otello to Desdemona in the Act III finale to Verdi’s penultimate opera. At the third performance of the Royal Opera’s latest revival of Otello, however, it came almost ...

This revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s 1987 production of Verdi’s penultimate opera proves one highly interesting point: that it is not necessary for the acting or singing styles of the main protagonists ...

At Grange Park Opera, the great Simon Keenlyside (pictured below) threatened at several points to overwhelm David Alden’s new production: a dominance rubbed in by his silent, watchful presence at the ...