Otello fact sheet
Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto: Arrigo Boito, based on the play Othello by William Shakespeare
World premiere: February 5, 1887, at the Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy)
LA Opera has previously presented Otello in 1986, 1989, 1995 and 2008. (The 2023 production will be a revival of the production presented in 2008.)
Cast:
Otello: Russell Thomas
Desdemona: Lucia: Rachel Willis-Sørensen*
Iago: Igor Golovatenko
Cassio: Anthony Ciaramitaro ‡
Lodovico: Morris Robinson
Emilia: Sarah Saturnino* †
Montano: Alan Williams †
Roderigo: Anthony León †
Herald: Ryan Wolfe †
Creative team:
Conductor: James Conlon
Original Production: John Cox
Director: Joel Ivany*
Set and Costume Designer: Johan Engels
Lighting Designer: Jason Hand*
Chorus Director: Jeremy Frank
Children's Chorus Director: Fernando Malvar-Ruiz
Fight and Intimacy Director: Andrew Kenneth Moss
* LA Opera debut
† Member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
‡ Former member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program
Performance dates and times:
May 13, 2023, at 7:30pm
May 17, 2023, at 7:30pm
May 20, 2023, at 7:30pm
May 28, 2023, at 2pm
June 1, 2023, at 7:30pm
June 4, 2023, at 2pm
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
An LA Opera co-production with Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Teatro Regio di Parma
Estimated running time: three hours, 15 minutes, including two intermissions
Venue: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, 90012)
All programs, artists and dates are subject to change.
Last updated: April 7, 2023
