Overview
Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
Cast
- Plácido Domingo as Otello
- Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona
- Justino Díaz as Iago
- Petra Malakova as Emilia
- Urbano Barberini as Cassio
- Massimo Foschi as Lodovico
- Edwin Francis as Montano
- Sergio Nicolai as Roderigo
- Remo Remotti as Brabantio
- Antonio Pierfederici as Doge