Verdi: Otello

About Verdi: Otello

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. At the helm of this performance is riveting conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who brings out all the cascading emotions in Verdi’s turbulent score.

Bartlett Sher and Gary Halvorson directed Verdi: Otello, a 2015 music film. It runs 164 minutes and was released in October 2015.

Aleksandrs Antonenko takes the lead as Otello, Željko Lučić as Iago, Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona, and Dimitri Pittas as Cassio. Written by Arrigo Boito.

In the United States it streams on Stingray Classica Amazon Channel.

It carries a PG-13 rating.