St Petersburg, Mariinsky II

Otello


opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Performed in Italian (the performance will have synchronised Russian and English supertitles)
 
Marking 460 years since the birth of William Shakespeare

Performers

Conductor:

Christian Knapp

World premiere: 5 February 1887, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 26 November 1887 (performed in Russian, translated by Nikolai Spassky)
Premiere of the new revision of the 1996 production: 3 December 2022


Running time 2 hours 55 minutes
The performance has one interval

Age category 12+

Credits

Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito, after William Shakespeare´s tragedy Othello, or The Moor of Venice

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director: Mikhail Smirnov
Set and Costume Designer: Wolf Münzner
Lighting Designer: Anton Nikolaev
Video designer: Vadim Dulenko
Principal Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov
Musical Preparation: Alla Brosterman
Italian Language Coach: Maria Nikitina



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