Montreal's Otello ticks the boxes

By Patricia Maunder, 01 February 2016

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“her voice soared powerfully from pianissimo and mezzo-lows, to top notes of exquisite purity”

Reviewed at Place des Arts: Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal on 30 January 2016

Verdi, Otello

Opéra de Montréal

Keri-Lynn Wilson, Conductor

Glynis Leyshon, Director

Peter Hartwell, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Kristian Benedikt, Otello

Hiromi Omura, Desdemona

Aris Argiris, Iago

Lauren Segal, Emilia

Antoine Bélanger, Cassio

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

Chœur de l'Opéra de Montréal

Guy Simard, Lighting Designer

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Patricia Maunder

Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist for more than 20 years, contributing to publications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK including The Sydney Morning Herald and Opera magazine. She is based in Melbourne, but considers Montreal her 'other' hometown after living there in 2012-16. For more about Patricia, visit her website.