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Opera on 3

Music: Classical: Opera

Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: From the Met: Verdi's Otello

Verdi's Otello

From the Met

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, From the Met, Verdi's Otello

Gustavo Dudamel makes his Met debut conducting Verdi's masterpiece, Otello

Verdi's Shakespearean masterpiece, Otello, from the Met in New York, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

Tonight's opera from the Met in New York is Verdi's Shakespearean tragedy, Otello. The cast is led by tenor Stuart Skelton in the title role as the hero who can't control his jealousy, soprano Sonya Yoncheva stars as the devoted but doomed Desdemona, and baritone Zeljko Lučić sings the treacherous Iago in Verdi's musical and dramatic masterpiece.  Gustavo Dudamel makes his Met debut conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House.

Presented from the Met by Mary Jo Heath and commentator Ira Siff.

Verdi: Otello

Desdemona..... Sonya Yoncheva (Soprano )
Emilia..... Jennifer Johnson Cano (Mezzo-soprano)
Otello.....Stuart Skelton (Tenor)
Cassio.....Alexey Dolgov (Tenor)
Iago.....Zeljko Lucic (Baritone)
Lodovico.....James Morris (Bass)
Roderigo.....Chad Shelton (Tenor)
Montano.....Jeff Mattsey (Baritone)
A Herald.....Kidon Choi (Bass)
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Gustavo Dudamel (Conductor

Opera on 3: From the Met

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