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Otello

American  
[aw-tel-law] / ɔˈtɛl lɔ /

noun

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


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“And if you’re singing the most dramatic parts like Otello, you can’t keep it up forever. I would quite like to sing until I’m 55 or 60.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

For now, with Thomas as a compelling Otello, we can stick with Verdi’s title.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

Opera’s artist in residence, ultimately requires a production and a theater with more intimacy to meaningfully bring out the interior core he is reaching for in his Otello.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

“He was very interested in my singing Otello, and he and I performing the show together,” Thomas said the other day.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

That made her hem and fidget, but when Otello embraced his wife, she put up her fan in disgust, and said indignantly to me: 'How outrageous!

From With Edge Tools by Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)

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