I must admit that I entered LoftOpera's performance of Rossini's take on OTELLO with some trepidation. Besides having a particular affection for the Verdi version, my experience with "alternate ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rossini’s “Otello” premiered in 1816, and the musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play was a hit for seven decades. Then Verdi’s version debuted in 1887 and was acclaimed as ...

Following the critical and public success of Tristan and Isolde and Der Rosenkavalier, Melbourne Opera will complete its powerful 2018 season with the Australian premiere of Rossini's dramatic ...

Set in the 1920s with elegant costumes and scenery, Rossini's rarely performed version of Shakespeare's tragedy “Othello,” comes to Opera Philadelphia for the first time in a critically acclaimed ...

The 1978 Philips recording of Otello has Frederica von Stade as Desdemona with a strong cast which includes José Carreras as Otello, Gianfranco Pastine as Iago and Salvatore Fisichella as Rodrigo.