Description: Otello by Gioachino Rossini Javier Camarena (Tenor)Cecilia Bartoli (Mezzo Soprano)Edgardo Rocha (Tenor)John Osborn (Tenor) Muhai Tang, conductorZurich La Scintilla Orchestra Cecilia Bartoli makes her long-anticipated debut in the role of Desdemona in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s new production of Rossini’s Otello for the Zurich Opera House. Once Verdi’s Otello premiered in 1887, it drove a stake through the heart of Rossini’s version from 1816. After scoring a stunning success in Naples, Rossini’s melodrama—it bears little resemblance to Shakespeare’s play—went on to set the template for Romantic tragedy on the Italian opera stage. By mid-century, however, it had been overtaken by musical styles less beholden to outmoded bel canto conventions. For more than a century this was the verdict, until the revival of bel canto led by Maria Callas in the 1950s allowed for the rise of the charismatic mezzo Cecilia Bartoli. While Callas added star power and visceral emotion to I puritani and La sonnambula, Rossini is the chief cause and the source of Bartoli’s operatic fame, and Bartoli is a riveting tragic actress, as she amply demonstrates in this modern-dress Otello from Zurich.
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Release Year: 2014
Studio: Decca
Format: DVD
Movie/TV Title: Otello
Sub-Genre: Music Video (Concert/Performance)
Genre: Opera/Operetta
