OPERA lovers have waited with eager anticipation for the role debut of the highly acclaimed Jonas Kaufmann in Otello, judged to be Verdi’s most demanding tenor part. It requires a rich baritonal ...

The one rocky moment in Opera North’s new production of Otello comes in the opening minutes; Verdi’s storm-tossed prelude blasts out gloriously, the huge ensemble cast enter and stare boldly out into ...

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 ...

At Grange Park Opera, the great Simon Keenlyside (pictured below) threatened at several points to overwhelm David Alden’s new production: a dominance rubbed in by his silent, watchful presence at the ...

Once you get over the shock that Shakespeare’s immortal masterpiece has been turned into a stereotypical Italian opera of the early 19th century, where minor character Rodrigo, now in love with ...

We open on an enormous storm, the first glimpse of splendid work from the chorus and Iago, as ever a man apart, confiding his diabolical plot to us with its thin vindication of revenge for his rival, ...

Verdi's opera "Otello" is based on Shakespeare’s play about a North African general who becomes a war hero and tries to fit into high — white — society in Venice. It is renowned for its challenging ...

UK opera fans had to wait over 130 years to see a black tenor play Otello. Rod McPhee met the man with the overdue honour in Opera North’s new version of Verdi’s epic. IT’S curious to think that there ...

It's hardly The Black and White Minstrel Show but a new Shakespeare performance has sparked a row over "blacking up". Otello, one of the few black characters in opera, is being played by a white man ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. It is 40 years since Plácido Domingo gave London the first glimpse of his Otello at the Queen’s silver ...

Ever wanted to have an opera performed in your front room? Well now’s your chance. Kent Opera is offering fans the chance to bid for a private performance at a place of their choice. The highest ...

THERE are two sounds in this world that surpass all others in the feelings of exultation they can induce in the ear of a listener: the glorious smooth tenor voice of Jonas Kaufmann and the stunning ...