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

Organization

Dirigat

Zubin Mehta

Tenor

Arsen Soghomonyan

Othello

Sopran

Sonya Yoncheva

Desdemona

Bariton

Luca Salsi

Jago

Mezzosopran

Anna Malavasi

Emilia

Francesco Demuro

Cassio

Gregory Bonfatti

Roderigo

Bass

Federico Sacchi

Ludovico

Giovanni Furlanetto

Montano

Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker

Otello -  (Othello)

Berlin

Deutschland

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

Genehmigt

Instrumentalist

Klavier

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Komposition

Regie

Libretto

Bühnenbild

Kostümbild

Choreographie

Lichtgestaltung

Tänzer

Schauspiel

Chordirektion

Videogestaltung

Dramaturgie

Übersetzung

Tongestaltung

Korrepetition

Maske

Leitender Produzent

Haar

Andere

Stage Manager

Chor

Orchester

Poet

GesangslehrerIn

Lehrer

Photographer

Rundfunk

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Singer

Countertenor

Bass-Bariton

Gesprochen

Kinderstimme

Leise

Alto

Continuo

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, So. 28 Apr. 2019, Ab (2019/2019), Dirigat Zubin Mehta, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Deutschland

Aufführungskredite (Besetzung & Produktionsteam )

Besetzung

Ensemble

Programm, Info & Synopsis

Fotos

Weiterführende Literatur

Aufführungstermine & Spielstätten

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