Organization

Münchner Opernfestspiele

Singer

Tenor

Arsen Soghomonyan

Otello

Gregory Kunde

Soprano

Anja Harteros

Desdemona

Baritone

Gerald Finley

Iago

Luca Salsi

Mezzo-soprano

Victoria Karkacheva

Emilia

Nadezhda Karyazina

Oleksiy Palchykov

Cassio

Galeano Salas

Roderigo

Bass

Bálint Szabó

Lodovico

Daniel Noyola

Montano

Andrew Hamilton

A Herald

Stage director

Amélie Niermeyer

Conductor

Daniele Rustioni

Lighting designer

Olaf Winter

Costume designer

Annelies Vanlaere

Set designer

Christian Schmidt

Video designer

Philipp Batereau

Choreographer

Thomas Wilhelm

Dramaturge

Malte Krasting

Rainer Karlitschek

Chorus master

Stellario Fagone

Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Simon Keenlyside

Fabio Sartori

Evan LeRoy Johnson

Milan Siljanov

Myung-Whun Chung

Antonino Fogliani

Bayerische Staatsoper

Edward Gardner

Johannes Knecht

Yonghoon Lee

Granit Musliu

Ailyn Pérez

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Others

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Italian

Otello -  (Othello)

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

Otello Verdi

Public

Private

Othello

German

English

Approved

The orchestra's elemental force tears the silence apart like an outcry, from one moment to the next the storm rages off the coast of Cyprus. The wind whips, lightning cuts through the tossed sky: Giuseppe Verdi anticipated the turmoil in the hearts of his characters in the revolting nature. His penultimate opera, with which he took up the music-dramatic word again after a long creative break, grabs the listener by the throat and does not let go until the inevitable end. Like Otello, the successful general, caught in Jago's intrigues; how the ominous seed of jealousy flourishes and Otello's love for his wife Desdemona begins to decompose on the wedding day; like Desdemona, "although she suspects or senses that this disaster is approaching her and that Otello is in a position to kill her out of jealousy,Otello created an opera drama that was not known until then in a more concise, direct, intense and beautiful way and is still unsurpassed today

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer