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Gioacchino Rossini's Otello

John Osborn and Olga Peretyatko sing the roles of Otello and Desdemona in Rossini's operatic version of the Shakespeare tragedy at the Lausanne Opera.

Lausanne Opera

August 7, 2010, 1:00 pm

Composer: Gioacchino Rossini
Conductor: Carrado Rovaris

 

Cast: John Osborn (Otello); Olga Peretyatko (Desdemona); Maxim Mironov (Rodrigo); Shi Yijie (Iago); Riccardo Zanellato (Elmiro); Isabelle Henriquez (Emilia)

 

Lovers of Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello may find that Rossini’s musical version strays a bit at the beginning. But when all is said and done, Rossini and the bard seem joined at the hip, in a hair-raising finale that rivals even Verdi’s masterful setting of the drama – which is coming up next week!

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