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SUMMARY:Metropolitan Opera in HD: Verdi’s Otello
DESCRIPTION:The Met season opens with Verdi’s masterful Otello\, inspired by Shakespeare’s play and matching it in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona\, Otello’s innocent wife and victim; and baritone Željko Lučić plays the evil Iago\, who masterminds Otello’s demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. \nWorld premiere: Teatro alla Scala\, Milan\, 1887. Met company premiere: Chicago (on tour)\, November 23\, 1891.Often cited as Italian opera’s greatest tragedy\, Otello is a miraculous union of music and drama\, a masterpiece as profound philosophically as it is thrilling theatrically. Shakespeare’s tale of an outsider\, a great hero who can’t control his jealousy\, was carefully molded by the librettist Arrigo Boito into a taut and powerful opera text. Otello almost wasn’t written: following the success of Aida and his setting of the Requiem mass in the early 1870s\, Verdi considered himself retired\, and it took Boito and publisher Giulio Ricordi several years to persuade him to take on a major new work. \nRunning time 2 hours and 57 minutes \nUnderwritten by Jeanne Cook\, Anita and Nicholas Donofrio\, Liz and Steven Goldstone\, Sabina and Walter Slavin
\nWith Support from The Ridgefield Press and Whistle Stop Bakery \n
URL:https://newcanaanite.com/new-canaan-event/metropolitan-opera-in-hd-verdis-otello
LOCATION:The Ridgefield Playhouse\, 80 East Ridge Road\, Ridgefield\, CT\, 06877\, United States
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