Verdi pares down Shakespeare's play to its basic elements of sexual jealousy and revenge, charting the tragic decline of the great military leader Otello as his mind is poisoned by the malicious insinuations of his diabolic ensign lago. With Russian stars VladimirGalusin and Nikolai Putilin under the baton of the director of St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre, Valeri Gergiev.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Valeri Gergiev Acts land 2
7.45 Interval: The Met Opera Quiz
Steven Blierputs listeners' questions to Martin Bernheimer , David Hamilton and Willie Anthony Waters. Send questions to Met Opera Quiz, FDR Station, PO Box 805, New York, NY 10150, USA.
8.05 Opera Snaps Rodney Milnes takes a sideways glance at this evening's opera.
8.10 Acts 3 and 4