Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
Franco Zeffirelli
Director
Arrigo Boito
Writer
Plácido Domingo
Otello
Katia Ricciarelli
Desdemona
Justino Díaz
Iago
Petra Malakova
Emilia
Urbano Barberini
Cassio
Massimo Foschi
Lodovico
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Montano
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Remo Remotti
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