Name: Otello
Start: 2006-02-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2006-02-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gran Teatre del Liceu

Organization

Singer

Tenor

José Cura

Otello

Gabriel Sadé

Soprano

Krassimira Stoyanova

Desdemona

Ana Ibarra

Baritone

Lado Ataneli

Iago

Valeri Alexejev

Vittorio Grigolo

Cassio

Francisco Vas

Vicenç Esteve

Roderigo

Mezzo-soprano

Ketevan Kemoklidze

Emilia

Bass

Giorgio Giuseppini

Lodovico

Konstantin Gorny

Francisco Santiago

Montano

Josep Ferrer

A Herald

Conductor

Antoni Ros-Marbà

Stage director

Willy Decker

Set designer

John Macfarlane

Costume designer

Lighting designer

David Finn

Choreographer

Athol Farmer

Chorus master

José Luis Basso

Roberto Accurso

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Otello -  (Othello)

Barcelona

Spain

Sala Miralls

Otello by Verdi from Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2006. Directed by Willy Decker, conductor Antoni Ros-Marbà. Starring José Cura (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Lado Ataneli (Jago), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio) and Ketevan Kemoklidze (Emilia). Subtitled are Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Seventy years after the triumph of the Rossini’s Otello ossia il Mauro di Venezia, Verdi premiered his own adaptation of the Shakespeare play at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

The Milanese public adored the new opera upon its 1887 premiere, leaving Rossini’s Otello to fall into relative obscurity in favor of Verdi's. While Rossini's work diverged fairly significantly from the Shakespeare source text, Verdi brought his nearer to the Bard, incorporating the infamous handkerchief and the layered psychological portrait of Iago. This staging from the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona is full of fire and passion, stunning set design, and performances worthy of a Willy Decker production...

Public

Othello

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading