Organization

Assistant to the scenes

Andrea Di Gregorio

Stage director

Gabriele Lavia

Singer

Tenor

Arsen Soghomonyan

Otello

Gregory Kunde

Roberto Aronica

Soprano

Mariangela Sicilia

Desdemona

Federica Vitali

Baritone

Franco Vassallo

Iago

Angelo Veccia

Mezzo-soprano

Marina Ogii

Emilia

Marco Miglietta

Cassio

Pietro Picone

Roderigo

Bass

Luciano Leoni

Lodovico

Luca Gallo

Montano

Lighting designer

Costume designer

Andrea Viotti

Set designer

Alessandro Camera

Chorus master

Gea Garatti Ansini

Alhambra Superchi

Conductor

Asher Fisch

Assit Director

Gianni Marras

Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Otello -  (Othello)

Bologna

Italy

Otello Verdi

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Othello

Approved

L'OTELLO SOSPESO TOLD BY THE ARTISTS Rehearsals for Giuseppe Verdi's Otello were already underway when the Prime Minister's Decree was released on 24 October last, which suspended the activities of theaters open to the public. The show, which should have been staged at the

Otello , an opera in four acts staged for the first time in Milan on February 5, 1887, was born from the maturation of Verdi's immense talent, a very wise doser of stage effects and a profound reader of the human soul. In fact, Verdi's theater has man at the center of its universe. A man who, like the protagonist, is for Verdi constantly stretched between two absolute abstractions: the most genuine and candid good (Desdemona) and the devious and cynical incarnation of evil (Iago). Otello moves between these two poles, letting himself be guided by the blinding passion and not by reason, which would have allowed him to defend himself from both abstractions, tending inexorably towards a tragic ending.

English

Otello, dramma lirico in quattro atti messo in scena per la prima volta a Milano il 5 febbraio 1887, nasce dalla maturazione del talento smisurato di Verdi, sapientissimo dosatore di effetti scenici e lettore profondo dell’animo umano. Il teatro verdiano ha, infatti, l’uomo al centro del suo universo. Uomo che, come il protagonista, è per Verdi costantemente teso tra due astrazioni assolute: il bene più genuino e candido (Desdemona) e la subdola e cinica incarnazione del male (Jago). Otello si muove tra questi due poli, lasciandosi guidare dall’accecante passione e non dalla ragione, che gli avrebbe invece consentito di difendersi dall’una e dall’altra astrazione, tendendo inesorabilmente verso un tragico epilogo.

italiano

Othello by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Gabriele Lavia,, Conductor Asher Fisch, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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