Otello
Stage director: Willy Decker. Music director: Antoni Ros-Marbá

About seventy years after the triumph of the Rossini Otello ossia il Mauro di Venezia, Verdi premieres his own adaptation of the Shakespeare play at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

And in 1887, the milanese public ovationates the new opera. Little by little, the Rossini opus tends to disappear from the great lyrical scenes around the world, and the Verdian Otello becomes the new reference of literary jealousy.

At the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, a staging of the love passions, with the set designs of the great Willy Decker...

Willy Decker stage director
François de Carpentries stage director
John MacFarlane set designer, costume designer
David Finn lightings
Athol Farmer choreography
José Luis Basso chorus master
Antoni Ros-Marbà musical direction


Orquestra Simfónica y cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu


José Cura (Otello)
Lado Ataneli (Jago)
Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio)
Vicenç Esteve Madrid (Roderigo)
Giorgio Giuseppini (Lodovico)
Francisco Santiago (Montano)
Roberto Accurso (Un Heraldo)
Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona)
Ketevan Kemoklidze (Emilia)

Movie director : Angel Luis Ramírez
Collection : Operalia: what have they become?
Playlists : The Irrestible Playlist, Great Italian Operas
Musical period : Romantism
Music genre : Opera

Duration : 02 h 20 min
Location : Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)
Production date : 2006
Production : © Opus Arte / Gran Teatre del Liceu
Available version(s) : IT ST EN, IT ST ES, IT ST FR