Look up: Otello

1. Otello
   (from the article `Rossini, Gioachino`) ...As with The Barber, this work uses a contralto for the heroine`s role (though both roles are often sung by sopranos); it proved no less ... Rossini`s Otello (1816), the first opera seria with a tragic ending, poises three tenors—Iago (the villain), Rodrigo (the rejected lover), and Otello ...
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2. Otello
   (from the article `Verdi, Giuseppe`) ...opera finally opened at La Scala in 1887. In his 74th year, Verdi, stimulated by a libretto far superior to anything he had previously set, had ... In 1869 the public and the writers on opera assumed that Verdi would continue to produce a new opera every few years. But 16 elapsed before the ... ...
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3. Otello
   `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 alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887. Composition: Verdi`s early retirement: After ...
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4. Otello
   (Rossini) `Otello` is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeare`s play Othello. However, the opera deviates heavily from Shakespeare`s original, not only in that it takes place in Venice and not on ...
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