David Alden's production of Otello, Verdi's penultimate opera and one of the great masterpieces of the genre, returns to the Teatro Real. This must-see opera, with its powerful music, tells a tragic story of betrayal, love, jealousy, ambition and deceit based on Shakespeare's timeless drama Othello.
Music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Libretto by Arrigo Boito after William Shakespeare’s play Othello, or The Moor of Venice (1603)
Production of Teatro Real, in co-production with English National Opera (London) and Kungliga Operan (Stockholm)
Artistic team
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Stage director: David Alden
Set and costume design: Jon Morrell
Lighting design: Adam Silverman
Choreography: Maxime Braham
Chorus director: Ana González
Cast
Otello: Brian Jagde
Iago: Gabriele Viviani
Cassio: Airam Hernández
Roderigo: Albert Casals
Lodovico: In Sung Sim
Montano / Un heraldo: Fernando Radó
Desdemona: Asmik Grigorian
Emilia: Enkelejda Shkoza
Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
Pequeños Cantores de la ORCAM