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Organization

Festival del Mediterrani

Singer

Tenor

Gregory Kunde

Otello

Soprano

Maria Agresta

Desdemona

Guanqun Yu

Baritone

Carlos Álvarez

Iago

Marcelo Puente

Cassio

Bass

Mischa Schelomianski

Lodovico

Mario Corberán

Roderigo

Choi Seung Pil

Montano

Mezzo-soprano

Cristina Faus

Emilia

Boro Giner

A Herald

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

Stage director

Davide Livermore

Chorus master

Francesc Perales

Costume designer

Mariana Fracasso

Luis Garrido

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

Others

Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana

Escolania de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats

Orchestra

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Italian

Otello -  (Othello)

Valencia

Spain

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

Auditori

"A triumph" (ABC), "enthralling" (Die Presse), a production "at the highest level" (Corriere della sera) and of "incredible quality" (La Vanguardia) - With Zubin Mehta conducting the orchestra of the Palau de les Arts "Reina Sofía" in Valencia, and three excellent soloists - Gregory Kunde, Maria Agresta and Carlos Álvarez - who form the main protagonist trio, this Otello is destined to establish itself as one of the most memorable stagings of this work.

In an elegant, simple set dominated by a large disc that rises and falls to suggest closeness or distance between the protagonists, director Davide Livermore focuses on the inner conflicts at the heart of Otello (Kunde ), Desdemona (Agresta) and Jago (Álvarez) gnaw. A clever and effective use of large screen projection and understated costumes round out Livermore's directing.

The renowned Viennese daily newspaper Die Presse wrote that Livermore's Otello was "exalted" by Kunde's singing. Kunde has successfully interpreted both Verdi's and Rossini's Otello in one year, perhaps the first tenor to have done so. While Álvarez "brims with devilish cynicism," Agresta sings with "heartfelt cantabilità" (Die Presse). Under the direction of Maestro Zubin Mehta, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana has truly become one of the leading European opera orchestras.

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