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Met Live in HD: Otello

Bartlett Sher directs Verdi’s masterful Otello, which matches Shakespeare’s play of jealousy and betrayal in tragic intensity.

Saturday, October 17, 2015
1:00pm – 5:00pm
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Fee required.

PART OF THE MET OPERA LIVE IN HD SERIES

In 1871, Verdi’s Aida had taken the musical world by storm. Following this success, the 58-year-old composer considered himself retired and retreated to his villa in the country. But then his publisher, in an attempt to coax him into writing another opera, brought Verdi together with Arrigo Boito, a writer (and composer) 30 years Verdi’s junior, and together they suggested a new project: an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello. Italian opera would never be the same.

Verdi’s masterful Otello matches Shakespeare’s play in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello’s innocent wife and victim; and baritone Željko Lučić plays the evil Iago, who masterminds Otello’s demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

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