An opera in four acts
Libretto based on Shakespeare by ARRIGO BOITO
Music by Verdi
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Cast in order of singing:
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master,
Douglas Robinson
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA House, COVENT GARDEN
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conductor, GEORG SOLTI
Act 1: Outside Otello's castle, overlooking the harbour
by LAURENCE LERNER
Lecturer in English in the University of Sussex
Was Anthony Trollope a serious novelist? Most of the time, no. But he had his moments, which characteristically he sometimes failed to appreciate.
ACT 2: A hall of the castle, overlooking the garden
Talk by PAUL NEUBURG , who escaped from Hungary at eighteen in 1956 to seek for a full life ' in the sense understood by people who live where they were born '
Act 3: The great hall of the castle
Roy WALKER examines current ideas about the costumes and sets appropriate to Shakespeare's plays with particular reference to the modern dresa production of Timon of Athens at Chichester
ACT 4: Desdemona's bedrom
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