Otello

[ Italian aw-tel-law ]

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noun

an opera (1887) with music by Giuseppe Verdi and a libretto by Arrigo Boito based on Shakespeare's Othello.

The next day, when Mammy Otello came, she seemed rather inclined to scold Bill for running away.

Mammy Otello gave Bill an affectionate embrace, as he wished her good-bye, an honour she did not bestow on the rest of the party.

Verdi chose him to sing in Otello against the advice of several friends, saying: "He has more brain than any five singers I know."

Was the musical taste in this country such, for instance, fifty years ago, that opera-frequenters would have relished even Otello?

Otello, a lyric drama in four acts, with a book by Arrigo Boito, proved the second of the composer's matured period works.

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