Otello at The State Opera
Dates: 2/3/2013 - 4/16/2013
📍 Theatre: The State Opera
Wilsonova 4
Praha 1, Praha 1
Phone: +420 224 901 448
Tickets: 150 K? - 1150 K?
Running Time: 2 hours and 10 minutes
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A key role in the origination of Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello, was played by the composer’s publisher Giulio Ricordi. After completing Aida in 1871, Verdi decided to abandon his extremely successful operatic career. Naturally, Ricordi did not take kindly to this, but he did know how to change Verdi’s mind – by offering the composer a libretto he simply would not be able to resist. Verdi’s great admiration of Shakespeare was generally known, and hence Ricordi cannily turned his attention to Othello and chose the renowned librettist Arrigo Boito. On 1 November 1886, Verdi completed the score. He was convinced that he and Boito had created a masterpiece – and he was right.
The premiere on 5 February 1887 was a momentous event and the opera immediately set out on its triumphant journey around the world. Owing to the promptitude of its director Adolf Šubert, Otello was staged by the National Theatre in Prague less than a year later, on 7 January 1888. In 1991, the German stage director Dominik Neuner created a remarkable production which went on to become one of the State Opera’s most acclaimed performances. In 2009, the opera was revived within Neurer’s intentions by Lubor Cukr and musically prepared by the dynamic young German conductor Heiko Mathias Förster.
The premiere on 5 February 1887 was a momentous event and the opera immediately set out on its triumphant journey around the world. Owing to the promptitude of its director Adolf Šubert, Otello was staged by the National Theatre in Prague less than a year later, on 7 January 1888. In 1991, the German stage director Dominik Neuner created a remarkable production which went on to become one of the State Opera’s most acclaimed performances. In 2009, the opera was revived within Neurer’s intentions by Lubor Cukr and musically prepared by the dynamic young German conductor Heiko Mathias Förster.
Cast and Creative Team for Otello at The State Opera
Libretto: Arrigo Boito
Conductor: Tomáš Brauner, Heiko Mathias Förster
Stage director: Dominik Neuner
Stage director for the renewed production: Lubor Cukr
Sets: Vladimír Nývlt
Costumes: Josef Jelínek
Chorus master: Tvrtko Karlovi?, Adolf Melichar
Cast:
Efe Ki?lali
Sergej Ljadov
Szilvia Rálik
Anda-Louise Bogza
Conductor: Tomáš Brauner, Heiko Mathias Förster
Stage director: Dominik Neuner
Stage director for the renewed production: Lubor Cukr
Sets: Vladimír Nývlt
Costumes: Josef Jelínek
Chorus master: Tvrtko Karlovi?, Adolf Melichar
Cast:
Efe Ki?lali
Sergej Ljadov
Szilvia Rálik
Anda-Louise Bogza
News About Otello at The State Opera
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