Los Angeles Opera began last week with the Pulitzer Prize announcement that “Omar,” the acclaimed new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, was being honored as the year’s best musical ...

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Otello (John Kun Park) gets a winding up from the devious Iago (Robert Balonek) in West Bay Opera’s production of “Otello.” Courtesy Natalya Polyakova. It’s amazing to witness, year after year, the ...

Antonenko’s Otello (pictured right, with Lucio Gallo’s Iago) is gestural but dignified, perhaps a little too much so as jealousy racks his pride – though as he falls to his knees to swear vengeance on ...

Opera companies worldwide revere Giuseppe Verdi's adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Othello." Yet they rarely perform it. The story of a war hero tricked into thinking his wife is unfaithful, ...

Local opera fans may not realize it, but they owe a debt of gratitude to Giulio Ricordi and Arrigo Boito. Without the machinations of these two — a music publisher, and a composer and librettist — ...

When Verdi began work on Otello with his librettist Boito, he toyed with the idea of calling it Iago. He didn’t of course, but if he’d been present at The Royal Opera’s second revival of Keith ...

The splendors of Verdi's "Otello" went on vivid display Saturday in the Baltimore Opera's new production, with soprano Aprile Millo, baritone Alexandru Agache and tenor Jon Fredric West in the leading ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra’s production of “Otello” hasn’t even opened yet, but for those behind it, it’s already something of a miracle. After struggling to find a tenor for the ...