Otello
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Composer |
Giuseppe Verdi |
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Librettist |
Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare |
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Venue and Dates |
Hamburg Staatsoper 14 January 1988 |
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Conductor |
Garcia Navarro |
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Director |
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Performers |
Otello : Placido Domingo Jago : Piero Cappuccilli Cassio : Kaludi Kaludov Desdemona : Katja Ricciarelli Lodovico : Janusz Niziolek Montano : Simon Keenlyside Emilia : Hildegard Hartwig
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Notes |
During SK’s 18 months in Hamburg (1987-89) he sang 37 performances of many different roles, including Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Deputierter (Don Carlos), Fiorello (Barbiere), Montano (Otello), Moralès (Carmen), Nightwatchman (Meistersinger), Steuermann (Tristan und Isolde), Wagner (Faust). If you know any more about this production or any of the others, please contact us on webmaster@simonkeenlyside.info |
An interview in Opera, 1997, recounts that in 1988 SK “was giving a Lieder recital, which as an extra was advertised in red on the standard poster promising Domingo in Otello in which Keenlyside sang the “Soldier Fred” role of Montano”. This was the catalyst for him to be poached by Scottish Opera.
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