Cast:
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello)
Marina
Poplavskaya (Desdemona)
Carlos
Alvarez (Jago)
Barbara
Di Castri (Emilia)
Stephen
Costello (Cassio)
Antonello
Ceron (Roderigo)
Mikhail
Petrenko (Lodovico)
Simone Del
Savio (Montano)
Conductor:
Riccardo Muti
Director:
Stephen Langridge
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Performed at
Salzburg Festival 2008
Verdi’s last
tragic opera,
Otello, like Shakespeare’s
play, is a shattering psychological
drama. The new production for the
Salzburg Festival is directed by
Stephen Langridge, who in 2006
attracted attention with his
production of Offenbach’s Bluebeard
in Bregenz. Riccardo Muti, one of
the best Verdi conductors of our
time, is returning to Salzburg.
Alongside to the Spanish baritone
Carlos Álvarez as Jago, two rising
international singers of the younger
generation can be heard as Otello
and Desdemona: the Latvian spinto
tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko and the
Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya. |
