Event listing: Otello | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | Event is in the past

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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées15 avenue Montaigne, Paris, Île-de-France, 75008, France

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Programme

Performers

Jean-Christophe Spinosi	Conductor
Moshe Leiser	Director
Christian Fenouillat	Set Designer
Ensemble Matheus
Patrice Caurier	Director
Cecilia Bartoli	Mezzo-soprano	Desdemona
Barry Banks	Tenor	Iago
Liliana Nikiteanu	Mezzo-soprano	Emilia
John Osborn	Tenor	Otello
Edgardo Rocha	Tenor	Rodrigo
Peter Kálmán	Baritone	Elmiro
Nicola Pamio	Tenor	The Doge

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A stormy reception for Rossini's Otello in Paris

Mark Pullinger, 7th April

Verdi’s Otello opens with a fierce storm raging over Cyprus. In Rossini’s version, composed 71 years earlier in 1816, the composer eschewed the Cypriot setting entirely and the storm doesn’t take place until Act III, although last night a mighty crack of thunder resounded over the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as the audience filed into the opera house.

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