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Otello
NY Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House
NY, NY USA
2008-03-01

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Opera in Four Acts

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Text in Italian by Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare's play, as translated by Giulio Carcano (Italian) and Victor Hugo (French)

World Premiere: Milan, La Scala, February 5, 1887
U.S. Premiere: New York, Academy of Music, April 16, 1888
Metropolitan Opera Premiere: January 11, 1892

The Cast & Characters

Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Desdemona: Renée Fleming
Otello: Johan Botha
Iago: Carlo Guelfi
The Characters

Otello (tenor)- The Moorish Governor of Cyprus, and general in the Venetian army. He is deeply in love with his Venetian wife,

Desdemona.

Desdemona (soprano)- Otello's new wife, very much in love with her husband.

Emilia (mezzo-soprano)- Iago's wife, one of Desdemona's ladies-in-waiting.

Cassio (tenor)- Otello's friend and subordinate. He has just been promoted by Otello to the rank of lieutenant.

Roderigo (tenor)- A Venetian gentleman who is smitten with Desdemona.

Iago (baritone)- Otello's ensign (a military rank just below lieutenant). He is crafty, intelligent, evil-and determined to

destroy Otello.

Montano (bass)- The previous Governor of Cyprus.

Lodovico (bass)- the Venetian ambassador.


Disk 1:
Announcer 3:37
Act I
6:30
6:50
5:52
6:04
7:05

Announcer 4:59
Act II
6:36
10:55
10:06
7:03

Time: 75:42

Disk 2
Announcer 4:58
Act III
5:46
5:15
6:21
12:06
8:40

Announcer 2:32
Act IV
10:05
7:40
7:45

Total Time: 79:15

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