Verdi's opera "Otello" is based on Shakespeare’s play about a North African general who becomes a war hero and tries to fit into high — white — society in Venice. It is renowned for its challenging ...

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 ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera The Canadian Opera Company closes its 2018/2019 season with Otello, Verdi's blistering adaptation of Shakespeare's famous ...

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, ...

Opera companies now eschew the once traditional black makeup for the lead in Verdi’s masterpiece, but it remains a controversial issue that highlights the need to nurture more diverse talent German ...

Once you get over the shock that Shakespeare’s immortal masterpiece has been turned into a stereotypical Italian opera of the early 19th century, where minor character Rodrigo, now in love with ...

WNO’s Otello: Zach Borichevsky (Cassio), George Gagnidze (Iago), Wei Wu (Lodovico), Russell Thomas (Otello), Leah Crocetto (Desdemona) — Photo: Scott Suchman Deliciously bleak, Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello ...

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is one of the very greatest composers of opera. Not for him the symphonies, concertos or tone ...

The one rocky moment in Opera North’s new production of Otello comes in the opening minutes; Verdi’s storm-tossed prelude blasts out gloriously, the huge ensemble cast enter and stare boldly out into ...

Midway through Otello, a pained expression crosses the title character’s face as he staggers from the bed he shares with the beautiful Desdemona. “My joy is so fierce, I fear it will stifle me,” sings ...

The Metropolitan Opera will debut a fresh face in its season-opening production of Verdi’s “Otello” in September. For the first time on the famed New York stage, the actor who portrays the work’s ...