Name: Otello
Start: 2019-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Berliner Philharmonie

Organization

Dirigent

Zubin Mehta

Zanger

Tenor

Arsen Soghomonyan

Otello

Soprano

Sonya Yoncheva

Desdemona

Baritone

Luca Salsi

Jago

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Malavasi

Emilia

Francesco Demuro

Cassio

Gregory Bonfatti

Roderigo

Bass

Federico Sacchi

Lodovico

Giovanni Furlanetto

Montano

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Otello -  (Othello)

Berlijn

Duitsland

Berliner Philharmonie

The 75-year-old Giuseppe Verdi once again reached a new artistic level with Otello. None of his other operas is as compelling or has such dramatic force, right up to the murderous finale. Following the performances at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, the Berliner Philharmoniker present their interpretation of this dark, expressive score to the Berlin public together with a cast of prominent singers and conductor Zubin Mehta.

Otello Verdi

Public

Othello

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Broadcasting

Choreograaf

Chorus Director

Componist

Danser

Dramaturg

Extra

Geluidsontwerper

Haar stylist

Illustrator

Koor

Koor meester

Kostuum ontwerper

Librettist

Licht ontwerper

Orchestra Operations

Orkest

Other

Photographer

Poet

Regisseur

Répétiteur

Set designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Uitvoerend producent

Vertaler

Video ontwerper

Visagist

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Giuseppe Verdi’s Shakespeare opera Otello, premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1887, starts with an unparalleled musical bang: when the curtain rises, a storm depicted by the most sophisticated instrumental and vocal means rages off the coast of Cyprus – and already hints at the deadly passions that are ignited in the course of the drama. Sixteen years had passed since the premiere of Aida, which was composed for the opening of the Suez Canal, when Verdi once again returned to composing operas with Otello. Devastating criticism had meant that Verdi – apart from revisions of Simon Boccanegra and Don Carlos – no longer wanted to compose other stage works. “I would just hear again that I was not able to write and was a follower of Wagner,” the composer explained in a letter in 1878: “A fine result! After almost 40 years of musicianship, to end up as an imitator.” Only after the publisher Giulio Ricordi proposed a collaboration with the writer and composer Arrigo Boito did Verdi consider a new opera project. Seven years of intensive work together was to pass between Boito’s first sketch for Otello and Verdi’s completion of the compositional work.

Verdi ultimately decided against the original idea of naming their joint work “Iago” after the sinister villain of Shakespeare’s play: “He is (it is true) the demon who moves everything,” argued the composer, “but Otello is the one who acts. He loves, is jealous, kills and kills himself.” It is undoubtedly also thanks to his librettist that Verdi was able to open a new chapter in the history of Italian opera with Otello, for Boito, with a text that broke away from the traditions of Italian librettistics of that time, first created the possibilities for Verdi’s musically innovative setting of the Shakespearean jealousy drama.

A few days after staged performances at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Zubin Mehta, present two concert performances of Verdi’s late work at the Philharmonie with the conductor and a top-class ensemble of singers. The choral role, which ranges from the stormy beginning of the opera to lyrical passages, is taken by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, an established musical partner of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

English

Othello by Verdi, zo. 28 apr 2019, Van (2019/2019), Dirigent Zubin Mehta, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlijn, Duitsland

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