Otello (2001)

ALL 01/01/2001 (en) Music 157 Min
  • Release
    01/01/2001
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Otello
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

One of the chief pleasures of this live production of Otello from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden is Daniel Barenboim's conducting. From the opening gale-force blast of storm music, through the crunching and stabbing accompaniment of Iago's "Credo" to the shimmering strings of Desdemona's "Willow Song", he doesn't miss a trick. Everything works at the highest pitch of intensity and the orchestra sticks to his beat like glue. It's a necessary compensation for the shortcomings of the staging: the stolid chorus remains unperturbed by the storm and is directed to perform with unison movements; the acting (apart from Valeri Alexejev) is non-committal, and Alexandre Tarta's video direction somewhat flat-footed. She doesn't manage to make much small-screen sense of an impenetrably murky opening scene, for example, and doesn't seem fond of reaction shots.

  1. Jürgen Flimm

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. François Duplat

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Christian Franz

    Otello (tenor)

  2. Emily Magee

    Desdemona (soprano)

  3. Valeri Alexejev

    Iago (baritone)

  4. Stephan Rügamer

    Cassio (tenor)

  5. Andreas Schmidt

    Roderigo (tenor)

  6. Kwangchul Youn

    Lodovico (bass)

  7. Gerd Wolf

    Montano (bass)

  8. Katharina Kammerloher

    Emilia (mezzo-soprano)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 8 , Crews : 9

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Otello (2001) 157 Min

ALL 01/01/2001 (en)
Music
  • Release 01/01/2001
  • Production
  • Original title Otello
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

One of the chief pleasures of this live production of Otello from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden is Daniel Barenboim's conducting. From the opening gale-force blast of storm music, through the crunching and stabbing accompaniment of Iago's "Credo" to the shimmering strings of Desdemona's "Willow Song", he doesn't miss a trick. Everything works at the highest pitch of intensity and the orchestra sticks to his beat like glue. It's a necessary compensation for the shortcomings of the staging: the stolid chorus remains unperturbed by the storm and is directed to perform with unison movements; the acting (apart from Valeri Alexejev) is non-committal, and Alexandre Tarta's video direction somewhat flat-footed. She doesn't manage to make much small-screen sense of an impenetrably murky opening scene, for example, and doesn't seem fond of reaction shots.

  1. Jürgen Flimm

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. François Duplat

    Producer