Voice was consistently strong through what is one of the most demanding male roles Italian tenor Antonello Palombi as Otello was the vocal highlight of the show. With American tenor John Cudia's handsome and guileless Cassio, he was genial andĬharming, while delivering vicious asides to the audience. The Moor's head, then sat in Otello's abandoned chair of state to gloat.
At the end ofĪct 3, when Otello fell into a swoon, Iago stood over him, threatening to step on Than the singer playing Otello, his Iago dominated Otello physically. He often stood still while members of the chorus flowed around him. "From this time forth I will never speak word." Verdi's Iago, then, is a conventionalĬanadian baritone Gregory Dahl made a striking Iago. At the end of the opera, when he is caught, he says nothing, not even He takes the Desdemona's handkerchief away from Emiliaīy brute force. In the second act, Iagoĭeclares himself a nihilist who believes that there is nothing after death and that There is no mention of Iago's sexual jealousy.
He declares to Rodrigo that he hates Otello because the general has promoted Cassioīefore him. Iago's motivations in the opera are clear: Mark, the symbol of Venice, set against a dark sea and ominous clouds, on the scrim Portion of the Othello story by projecting a huge image of the winged lion of St. The Vancouver production reminded the audience of the Venetian Verdi's four-act version of Shakespeare's story is highly condensed, taking placeĮntirely in Cyprus. Technically demanding operas in Verdi's catalogue, it premiered in 1887 and received Passages that mimic natural speech), and ensemble pieces blended together creatingĪ continuous musical soundscape reminiscent of Richard Wagner's work. The opera was musically innovative: the arias, recitatives (simply sung He completed the opera in 1886 with a libretto byĪrrigo Boito. Opera based on Othello drew him back to work in 1884. Verdi had entered a self-imposed retirement after completing his opera Aida in 1871, but he was a Shakespeare enthusiast and the possibility of composing an Otello was Verdi's penultimate opera (the last was Falstaff). Productions ever undertaken by Vancouver Opera and one of its most successful. The direction of British conductor Jonathan Darlington. Three operas all performed at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre: Otello, Dead Man Walking, and The Marriage of Figaro. The Otello production was the largest of the three employing a full 65-piece orchestra under Vancouver Opera mounted a four-night production of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello in May of 2017 as part of its Vancouver Opera Festival, ten days of celebration around Otello (2017, The O'Brian Centre for Vancouver Opera, Canada) Scene Emotional Storms: Verdi's Otello at Vancouver Operaīy Paul Budra.
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