Verdi's opera "Otello" is based on Shakespeare’s play about a North African general who becomes a war hero and tries to fit into high — white — society in Venice. It is renowned for its challenging ...

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 ...

Governor and General of the Venetian fleet, the Moor Otello has been fighting the Muslim Turks and guides his victorious navy to safe harbor. In his absence, the young Venetian Roderigo has arrived in ...

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 ...

This opera based on Shakespeare’s play Othello, by Giuseppe Verdi, tells the tale of a powerful army general, Otello, and his wife Desdemona, whose lives are ruined by Otello’s jealous and conniving ...

The one rocky moment in Opera North’s new production of Otello comes in the opening minutes; Verdi’s storm-tossed prelude blasts out gloriously, the huge ensemble cast enter and stare boldly out into ...

The Royal Opera's new production of Verdi's late masterpiece is a night of two halves. Director Keith Warner begins part one (Acts 1 & 2) with Iago alone in a spotlight and part two (Acts 3 & 4) with ...

Verdi's Otello boils down Shakespeare's play to its essentials and what it lacks in poetry it more than makes up for in music says Sameer Rahim. Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello and Anja Harteros as ...