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Verdi’s Otello from Venice

Otello, Iago and Desdemona, three of literature's most complex and compelling characters, come to life in what many consider Verdi's most moving opera, Otello. Written when the composer was in his...

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Shakespeare, the Musical Muse

It seems so easy: take a play with engaging characters whose motivations and contradictions are quickly comprehensible. Add a gifted composer and an incredibly talented director who also writes...

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Verdi's Otello at Lyric Opera of Chicago

A new season of broadcasts from the Lyric Opera of Chicago kicks off with Verdi's Otello, a musically and emotionally complex opera founded on jealousy and insecurity. In this production of Verdi's...

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Verdi's Otello from the Théâtre Antique in France

• Listen to the Operavore streamOtello, Iago and Desdemona, three of literature's most complex and compelling characters, come to life in what many consider Verdi's most moving opera, Otello. Written...

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Must Opera Be 'Relevant'?

The new opera season is upon us in New York as the Metropolitan Opera prepares to raise its curtain—though it rarely uses its iconic gold silk curtain anymore—on Monday. The company will present a new...

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Review: Metropolitan Opera Searches Dark Heart of 'Otello' in Season Opener

As Metropolitan Opera opening nights go, the 2015 edition had less gala hubbub – few barricades, no protesters and celebrity guests such as Bette Midler and Helen Mirren making relatively quiet...

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Verdi's 'Otello' From the Peralada Castle Festival

Otello, Iago and Desdemona, three of literature's most complex and compelling characters, come to life in what many consider Verdi's most moving opera, "Otello." Written when the composer was in his...

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Music Inspired by Shakespeare

This week on Exploring Music, host Bill McGlaughlin honors the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare with works by composers that the playwright influenced. Featured pieces include...

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A Second 'Otello'? The Other Operas Inspired by Shakespeare

Whether offering hijinks or high drama, Shakespeare’s plays have been transformed into operas by many of the great composers, and several of these works have inspired more than one adaptation. Opera...

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Verdi Nods to Shakespeare with 'Otello'

Tune in at 1 pm Saturday to hear Verdi's Otello from the Metropolitan Opera on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. The Bartlett Sher production, which premiered earlier this...

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Rossini's 'Otello' from Barcelona

Verdi wasn't the only Italian composer inspired by Shakespeare's play Othello. More than 70 years earlier, Rossini had set this tragic tale of jealousy and revenge to music. Though the latter opera...

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Verdi's 'Otello' from Barcelona

Perhaps no other composer adapted the words of Shakespeare for the operatic stage quite as well as Giuseppe Verdi. His Macbeth, Falstaff and Otello are not just some of the best operas based on works...

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Review: LoftOpera's 'Otello' by Rossini Rewards With Three Fine Tenors

Is there anybody in this opera who is NOT a tenor?That’s a valid question in Rossini’s Otello, which is sort of based on Shakespeare, predates Verdi’s more famous version of the story and has Desdemona...

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Listen: LoftOpera Directors Discuss Their Fresh Take on Rossini's 'Otello'

As they were gearing up to open the LoftOpera season with Rossini’s Otello, music director Sean Kelly and stage director John de los Santos joined us in the studio to answer the question of why this...

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20 Great Music Compositions Inspired by Shakespeare

Sunday is Shakespeare's 453rd birthday and 401st deathday (yeah, thems the breaks). He might not be around to celebrate those anniversaries, but you sure are. In addition to any parties or dramatic...

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Jonas Kaufmann Tackling Otello Will Show at U.S. Theaters in HD

In 1965, Maria Callas sang her final two Met performances, as Tosca. Her Scarpia was Tito Gobbi and the conductor was Fausto Cleva. At the first performance her Mario Cavaradossi was Franco Corelli. At...

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Shakespearean Tragedy Makes a Return with Verdi’s Otello

Love, madness and treachery (at least in its most musical form) provide excellent Saturday afternoon company, as Verdi’s Otello is featured as the Met Opera’s first radio broadcast of the calendar...

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3-Minute Opera: Otello

Jeff Spurgeon consolidates the plot of Otello with such wit and articulation that it can only be compared with, daresay, none other than the Bard himself...except Jeff also has a knack for brevity.Tune...

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Verdi’s Otello: A Shakespearean Tragedy

This Saturday at 1 pm, tune in as the Metropolitan Opera presents a 2015 recording of Verdi’s Otello. This performance features Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello, the Venetian general whose unbridled...

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Otello: UNMOORED

“Otello” debuted in Milan in 1887, just two years after European nations gathered in Berlin to agree on a campaign to carve up and colonize the African continent for their own profit. Giuseppe Verdi’s...

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Otello: Haters

This week on Every Voice with Terrance McKnight, we go deeper into Giuseppe Verdi's character of the “Moor of Venice." Otello is a celebrated general in the Venetian army, and as a Black man in a...

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Otello: Black Handkerchiefs Matter

Giuseppe Verdi's Otello rose from enslavement to the ranks of army general and marries an aristocratic Venetian woman. It’s difficult  to imagine the rich cultural heritage of Otello’s African past;...

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Otello: The North Star

As the one Black man in Shakespeare’s play and Verdi’s opera, Otello was not only tokenized, but villainized, criticized and minimized. With such an emphasis on Otello’s flaws, how is it that Desdemona...

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Every Voice with Terrance McKnight: Otello

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Otello,” based on the play Shakespeare wrote in the very early 1600s, is a tragedy about the Moor Otello, his rise to power in European society, and his disastrous fall from it....

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A Radio Special: Verdi's "Otello"

“Otello” debuted in Milan in 1887, just two years after European nations gathered in Berlin to agree on a campaign to carve up and colonize the African continent for their own profit. Giuseppe Verdi’s...

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