Otello
Otello
Opera in four acts
Librettist Arrigo Boito
When Verdi completed the opera Aida in 1871, he decided to officially retire, much like Rossini after composing his opera William Tell. However, the considerable artistic and commercial success that Verdi had achieved with his earlier operas encouraged him to take up the musical pen again, also thanks to the intensive coaxing of publisher Giulio Ricordi. The search for a suitable theme for a new opera was significantly influenced by Ricordi, who suggested a collaboration with the talented writer Arrigo Boito. The choice of Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy Othello, which reached a new level of musical greatness in Italian music drama through Boito’s effective dramaturgical reworking and focus on the complex dynamics between Othello, Desdemona and Iago, was entirely to be expected given the composer’s high artistic standards. This beloved late operatic masterpiece by Verdi returns to the grand stage of the Maribor Opera after almost three decades, this time in a completely new production directed by Guy Montavon.
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