Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series. A new production of ...

Verdi's Otello boils down Shakespeare's play to its essentials and what it lacks in poetry it more than makes up for in music says Sameer Rahim. Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello and Anja Harteros as ...

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 ...

Described as a ‘voice killer’, it is one of the most demanding parts in opera. Tenor Stuart Skelton explains why he is now ready to take it on We’re very lucky that Verdi wrote Otello in the first ...

Verdi’s “Otello” puts extreme demands on any opera company. In these days of reduced forces and budget cuts, the composer’s towering tragedy doesn’t get produced as often as it should. Last month, two ...

Yesterday or today (the date is disputed), Giuseppe Verdi celebrated his 199th birthday. Next year he and Richard Wagner, the other blustery giant of 19th-century opera, will share a bicentennial, and ...

If the folks at the San Francisco Opera could sell tickets just to hear Patricia Racette sing the Willow Song and "Ave Maria" from the fourth and final act of Verdi's "Otello," then they'd have ...

Continuing Austin Opera's relationship with Italian Operas, Giuseppe Verdi's OTELLO opened at The Long Center last Saturday. To a packed house and a full stage, Verdi's adapted story of Shakespeare's ...

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro ...