Ben Heppner, center stage, in Act Two of Verdi’s Otello. Photo Credit: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera Neither the Metropolitan Opera nor the New York Philharmonic likes to take chances on opening night ...

In 2015, the Metropolitan Opera decided to end its practice of using dark makeup for the tenor singing the title role of Verdi’s “Otello.” While that decision prompted considerable discussion about ...

He was widely admired as the grand old man of Italian opera but had not produced a new work since Aida some 15 years earlier. Yet Otello features some of his most powerful music, bursting with ...

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 ...

The Sunday evening premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello at the Israeli Opera Tel Aviv concluded with standing ovations. The audience responded enthusiastically to tenor Kristian Benedikt’s heroic, and ...

Alden’s Cyprus is a walled stone courtyard. Occasionally a door slides away to reveal a skyline beyond, but our characters never step outside this claustrophobic no-place. Crucially it’s a public ...

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 ...

Otello comes to Den Norske Opera this month. Performances will run 16 January – 8 February. What do jealousy and bitterness do to a person? What happens inside you when someone takes all-out advantage ...

OTELLO by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). Runs to May 21. $22-$350. 416-363-8231. See listing. Rating: NNNN It helps that his production has a ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2015-16 season will begin on September 21 with a new production of Verdi’s Otello, directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher. The new staging is set to star Aleksandrs ...