Verdi: Otello, Muti/Vienna (Blu-ray)

Discs: 1
Record Label: C Major
Release Year: 2010

“The Vienna Philharmonic under Muti plays like demons in the pit . . . With her rich and powerful voice, [Poplavskaya] makes a worthy partner for Antonenko.” — MusicWeb International

In 2008, the Salzburg Festival saw its first new Otello since 1970 with today’s best-known interpreter of Italian opera, Riccardo Muti. British director Stephen Langridge impressed audiences and critics alike with a dramatically expressive production, full of cinematic qualities praised by Die Welt for its “enlightened realism.”

Subtitled in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Contents:

Verdi Otello
Aleksandrs Antonenko Otello
Marina Poplavskaya Desdemona
Carlos Àlvarez Iago
Barbara Di Castri Emilia
Stephen Costello Cassio
Antonello Ceron Roderig
Mikhail Petrenko Lodovico
Simone del Savio Montano
Andrea Porta A Herald
Vienna Philharmonic
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Thomas Lang director
Salzburg Festival Children’s Chorus
August 2008, Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival