Christian Möbius / Reviews

Das Staatstheater Cottbus bringt Giuseppe Verdis „Otello“ auf die Bühne. Ein Beziehungsgespinst, in dem es um Macht und Krieg führende Männer geht – aber auch um die Kraft der Frauen.

Rarely does an opera character spit this malice around your ears so naturally - and even more rarely do you develop sympathy for it: this distinguished ruling clique! Consisting of upstarts, warmongers, schemers, courtiers, seekers of advantage - a deeply mendacious society - and that's why an Iago functions in the fragile Otello system. He lights the candles in the ego trip of the characters, who always stay a step behind him.