I must admit that I entered LoftOpera's performance of Rossini's take on OTELLO with some trepidation. Besides having a particular affection for the Verdi version, my experience with "alternate ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra’s production of “Otello” hasn’t even opened yet, but for those behind it, it’s already something of a miracle. After struggling to find a tenor for the ...

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 ...

In 2013, to mark the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, the Teatro Regio di Parma and Unitel Classica joined forces to bring a truly unique project to fruition. The composer’s 26 operas, as well ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on ...

Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series. A new production of ...

The passions of Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello" flared up with visceral power when Houston Grand Opera returned to Verdi's drama Friday after a 25-year wait. Verdi's retelling of "Othello," William ...

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro ...