“Otello”: Opera Hong Kong, 14 October 2016
Watching a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello in the current political climate can be profoundly depressing.
Verdi’s “Otello”: Shakespeare Sings in Hong Kong
No opera composer turned to William Shakespeare more often than Giuseppe Verdi, who composed three works, Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, based on the Bard’s plays. But if it hadn’t been for the persistence of his publisher Ricordi and would-be librettist Arrigo Boito, Verdi might well have stopped at one. He had to be coaxed out…
