Verdi Otello opera to libretto by Arrigo Boito. Directed 2008 by Stephen Langridge at the Salzburg Festival. Stars Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona), Carlos Álvarez (Jago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Stephen Costello (Cassio), Antonello Ceron (Roderigo), Mikhail Petrenko (Lodovico), Simone Del Savio (Montano), and Andrea Porta (Herald). Riccardo Muti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor (Chorus Master Thomas Lang), and the Salzburger Festspiele Kinderchor. Stage music by the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Sets by George Souglides; costumes by Emma Ryott; lighting by Giuseppe Di Iorio. Directed for TV by Peter Schönhofer. Sung in Italian. Released 2013, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: A
C Major put it's Tutto Verdi Blu-ray Box together from several resources. This Otello is the same disc that C Major released back in 2010, which I graded A. There are few changes to the package; for example, the background to the photo on the front cover is changed from light gray to black and the logo for the Salzburg Festival has been replaced with the Tutto Verdi logo. See the story on the C Major version for more info.
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