Vuelve Otello al Real, con más tibieza que pathos

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 20 September 2025

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“una puesta en escena sobria … que enfatiza el continuum dramático de un libreto bien construido”

Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 19 September 2025

Verdi, Otello

Teatro Real

Nicola Luisotti, Conductor

David Alden, Director

Jon Morrell, Set Designer

Adam Silverman, Lighting Designer

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

Coro Titular del Teatro Real

Maxine Braham, Dramaturgy

Brian Jagde, Otello

Asmik Grigorian, Desdemona

Enkelejda Shkoza, Emilia

Airam Hernández, Cassio

Albert Casals, Roderigo

Insung Sim, Lodovico

Fernando Javier Radó, Montano

Pequeños Cantores de la ORCAM

Jose Luis Basso, Choirmaster / chorus director

Ana González, Dirección del coro de niños

Deborah Warner attains her theatrical dream at the Teatro Real

Juan José Freijo, 12th March

Warner once again displays her unquestionable talent onstage and her affinity with Benjamin Britten, although, on this occasion, the musical aspect are not equally satisfactory.

***11

Illuminating history-makers: Nixon in China lands in Madrid

David Karlin, 17th April

John Adams’ opera about Richard Nixon’s historic meeting with Mao Tse-Tung is performed with all round excellence, with a real find on the podium in the shape of Olivia Lee-Gunderman.

****1

The martyrs and the oppressed: Peter Grimes at Teatro Real Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 19th April

The new production of Peter Grimes stands out as the strongest item in Teatro Real's season, with magnificent staging by Deborah Warner and superb musical direction by Ivor Bolton, with outstanding vocal and dramatic performances.

*****

Reality as a staging concept: La traviata at Teatro Real, Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 22nd July

In this historic reopening, Lisette Oropesa offers a magnificent performance, dramatically overwhelming and vocally very unique.

****1

La Veronal heads Into the Little Hill in Madrid

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*****

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Comedy fails to spark in Laurent Pelly's new production of Falstaff at the Teatro Real.

**111

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.