Otello

 

Rossini Otello opera to libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi. Directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier. Stars John Osborn (Otello), Cecilia Bartoli (Desdemona), Peter Kálmán (Elmiro), Javier Camarena (Rodrigo /Lucio), Edgardo Rocha (Jago), Liliana Nikiteanu (Emilia), Nicola Pamio (Doge di Venezia), Ilker Arcayürek. Muhai Tang conducts the Orchestra La Scintilla and the Supplementary Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich (Chorus Master Jürg Hämmerli). Set design by Christian Fenouillat; costumes by Agostino Cavalca; lighting by Christophe Forey and Hans-Rudolf Kunz; dramaturgy by Konrad Kuhn. Directed for TV by Olivier Simonnet; produced by Pierre-Olivier Bardet. Sung in Italian. Released 2014, disc has dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA