Released:
2008-08-05

Overview:
From the ‘Tutto Verdi’ series: "Otello", Salzburg Festival 2008. "Otello" is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, inspired by Shakespeare’s play "Othello". It is Verdi’s penultimate opera, premiered at La Scala in Milan on 5 February 1887. For the 2008 Salzburg Festival, Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He directs the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Salzburg Festival Children’s Choir.

Directors:
Peter Schönhofer, Stephen Langridge

Runtime:
2h 23min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Aleksandrs Antonenko
  as
  Otello
• 
  Marina Poplavskaya
  as
  Desdemona
• 
  Carlos Álvarez
  as
  Jago
• 
  Barbara Di Castri
  as
  Emilia
• 
  Stephen Costello
  as
  Cassio