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Otello, or The dark side of the Moor unveiled in Naples

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Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 19 April 2014
Verdi, Otello
Teatro di San Carlo
Nicola Luisotti, Conductor
Henning Brockhaus, Director
Patricia Toffolutti, Costume Designer
Nicola Rubertelli, Set Designer
Lianna Haroutounian, Desdemona
Anna Malavasi, Emilia
Alessandro Liberatore, Cassio
Marco Berti, Otello
Antonello Ceron, Roderigo
Roberto Frontali, Iago
Dario Russo, Lodovico
Ventceslav Anastasov, Montano
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