Verdi: Otello / Vickers, Scotto, Levine. Met

Levine, James

Wholenote Discoveries - October 2011
Live from September 25, 1978, this production has the incomparable Jon Vickers in the title role supported by Cornell MacNeil (Iago), Renata Scotto (Desdemona), Andrea Velis (Rodrigo), James Morris, and others. This was some four years after Vickers filmed Otello in Karajan’s production in Berlin. Cornell MacNeil, who died in July this year, is perfectly cast as the schemer who brings down Otello. Production and sets by Zeffirelli. Bruce Surtees.