Otello (2001)

Özet

One of the chief pleasures of this live production of Otello from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden is Daniel Barenboim's conducting. From the opening gale-force blast of storm music, through the crunching and stabbing accompaniment of Iago's "Credo" to the shimmering strings of Desdemona's "Willow Song", he doesn't miss a trick. Everything works at the highest pitch of intensity and the orchestra sticks to his beat like glue. It's a necessary compensation for the shortcomings of the staging: the stolid chorus remains unperturbed by the storm and is directed to perform with unison movements; the acting (apart from Valeri Alexejev) is non-committal, and Alexandre Tarta's video direction somewhat flat-footed. She doesn't manage to make much small-screen sense of an impenetrably murky opening scene, for example, and doesn't seem fond of reaction shots.

Oyuncular

• Christian Franz

  Otello (tenor)

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  Emily Magee

  Desdemona (soprano)

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  Valeri Alexejev

  Iago (baritone)

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  Stephan Rügamer

  Cassio (tenor)

• Andreas Schmidt

  Roderigo (tenor)

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  Kwangchul Youn

  Lodovico (bass)

• Gerd Wolf

  Montano (bass)

• Katharina Kammerloher

  Emilia (mezzo-soprano)

Ekip

Yönetmen

Jürgen Flimm

Senaryo

Arrigo Boito

Yapımcı

François Duplat

Müzik

Giuseppe Verdi