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Dallas Opera: Otello
Date: October 23, 2009 - November 8, 2009
Website: www.dallasopera.org
Location: Winspear Opera House
Address:
2100 Ross Avenue
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OTELLO By Giuseppe Verdi
Sung in Italian with English supertitles. Run time approximately 3 hours.
It promises to be the season opener of the century: Renowned tenor Clifton Forbis, Georgian baritone Lado Ataneli and acclaimed French soprano Alexandra Deshorties - making her role debut as Desdemona - in a new production of Verdi's 1887 masterpiece chosen to inaugurate the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, beginning October 23, 2009.
OTELLO, based on one of William Shakespeare's most intense dramas, is a tale of passionate love derailed by the Machiavellian schemes of Iago, a figure of profound evil. A jealous husband is manipulated into a murderous rage against his innocent wife, with tragic results for all.
This new Dallas Opera production - conducted by Music Director Graeme Jenkins and staged by Tim Albery - stars Forbis, a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera and Teatro alla Scala, and Allan Glassman (Oct. 25th performance) "in clarion mature-career form as Otello," wrote Opera News, in the title role of the fatally flawed Moorish general while Ataneli, one of the world's most sought-after Verdian baritones with one of the "most mellifluous voices on the planet" (Los Angeles Times), portrays the famed villain of the piece.
Production design by Anthony Baker. Lighting by Thomas C. Hase.