About Diogenes Randes

Date and venue	Title
31-Mar-2012 National Theatre	Otello in Munich: Everything Opera Should Be
Otello is usually considered to be Verdi’s most mature opera. It was one of the last ones he wrote, the result of a plot by his publisher Riccordi and the conductor Franco Faccio to draw him out of early retirement. The result is a work which combines all the aspects of Verdi’s earlier operatic style with Wagner’s concept of Gesamtkunstwerk. Unlike the operas up to Aida, Otello does away with the strict “aria-recitative” division, moving towards the more fluid style of Wagner. Read full review...

Date and venue

Title

31-Mar-2012
National Theatre

Otello in Munich: Everything Opera Should Be

Image credit: Krassimira Stoyanova and Peter Seiffert © Wilfried Hösl

Otello is usually considered to be Verdi’s most mature opera. It was one of the last ones he wrote, the result of a plot by his publisher Riccordi and the conductor Franco Faccio to draw him out of early retirement. The result is a work which combines all the aspects of Verdi’s earlier operatic style with Wagner’s concept of Gesamtkunstwerk. Unlike the operas up to Aida, Otello does away with the strict “aria-recitative” division, moving towards the more fluid style of Wagner.
Read full review...

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