American tenor Russell Thomas – the first black man to sing the title role at Covent Garden – delivers a searing and shattering performance For a moment, if you can, put aside the fact that, after 234 ...
The world premiere of Verdi's Otello, at La Scala in 1887, featured tenor Francesco Tamagno in the title role. The opera is set in a maritime city on the island of Cyprus, at the end of the 15th ...
Festival Opera, Walnut Creek's invaluable but imperiled opera company, continued its slow climb back from the financial brink over the weekend with a theatrically vivid and largely well-sung ...
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello) and Željko Lučić (Iago) perform the Act II finale duet in Verdi’s Otello, directed by Bartlett Sher at the Met.