Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

Complete Information About Otello in Wichita at Wichita Grand Opera. ACT I. On a stormy night, the people of Cyprus anxiously await the arrival of the new Governor, Otello, from the battle with the ...

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Opera companies worldwide revere Giuseppe Verdi's adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Othello." Yet they rarely perform it. The story of a war hero tricked into thinking his wife is unfaithful, ...

Otello (John Kun Park) gets a winding up from the devious Iago (Robert Balonek) in West Bay Opera’s production of “Otello.” Courtesy Natalya Polyakova. It’s amazing to witness, year after year, the ...

At Grange Park Opera, the great Simon Keenlyside (pictured below) threatened at several points to overwhelm David Alden’s new production: a dominance rubbed in by his silent, watchful presence at the ...

Local opera fans may not realize it, but they owe a debt of gratitude to Giulio Ricordi and Arrigo Boito. Without the machinations of these two — a music publisher, and a composer and librettist — ...

The passions of Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello" flared up with visceral power when Houston Grand Opera returned to Verdi's drama Friday after a 25-year wait. Verdi's retelling of "Othello," William ...

When Verdi began work on Otello with his librettist Boito, he toyed with the idea of calling it Iago. He didn’t of course, but if he’d been present at The Royal Opera’s second revival of Keith ...

Antonenko’s Otello (pictured right, with Lucio Gallo’s Iago) is gestural but dignified, perhaps a little too much so as jealousy racks his pride – though as he falls to his knees to swear vengeance on ...

The splendors of Verdi's "Otello" went on vivid display Saturday in the Baltimore Opera's new production, with soprano Aprile Millo, baritone Alexandru Agache and tenor Jon Fredric West in the leading ...