Name: Otello
Start: 2021-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Großes Haus

Organization

Soprano

Tanja Kuhn

Desdemona

Lighting designer

Diego Leetz

Leah Gordon

Chorus master

Christian Möbius

Conductor

Frank Bernard

Andreas Simon

Christian Georgi

Language advice

AnnaLisa Canton

Tenor

Xavier Moreno

Otello

Jens Klaus Wilde

Baritone

Andreas Jäpel

Iago

Mezzo-soprano

Rahel Brede

Emilia

Alexey Sayapin

Cassio

Dirk Kleinke

Roderigo

Bass

Ulrich Schneider

Lodovico

Daniel Foki

Montano

Alexander Trauth

A Herald

Stage director

Jasmina Hadziahmetovic

Alexander Merzyn

Costume designer

Christian Robert Müller

Set designer

Video

René Liebert

Dramaturge

Catherine Duda

Staatstheater Cottbus

Others

opera choir

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester des Staatstheater Cottbus

Italian

Otello -  (Othello)

Cottbus

Germany

Großes Haus

Otello Verdi

Public

Othello

German

Approved

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Shakespeare's dramas fascinated the composer Giuseppe Verdi throughout his life. Here he found the core of his own music theater: real people of tragic proportions. In his OTELLO, together with the librettist Arrigo Boito, he created the psychological drama of a man who perishes because of his own self-image.

Director Jasmina Hadžiahmetović takes this basic conflict as the starting point for a questioning of human nature in war and peace. The outsider Otello, who can only maintain his place in society because of his military successes, is haunted by his war trauma until their wedding night: Desdemona loved him “for the sake of his suffering”. In the brutal murder at the end, the soldier's suppressed memories are expressed, as are the experiences of discrimination of the dark-skinned person, whom the hate-contorted look of Jago makes him look like.

English

Othello by Verdi, From (2021/2022), Directed by Jasmina Hadziahmetovic,, Conductor Frank Bernard, Andreas Simon, Alexander Merzyn, Großes Haus, Cottbus, Germany

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