The Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: OtelloThe Metropolitan Opera 2026/27: Otello

Verdi's Otello, presented by the Metropolitan Opera in 2026/27, sets Jago as evil, Desdemona as good and Otello as a tragic victim.

At nearly seventy, Giuseppe Verdi actually wanted to write no more operas. His librettist Arrigo Boito persuaded him to set Shakespeare's Otello to music. In the opera, Jago embodies evil, Desdemona embodies good, and Otello is the tragic victim who becomes an instrument of evil. The Metropolitan Opera presents Verdi's Otello in its 2026/27 season. When the opera was announced, all of Europe looked forward to the premiere; it took place in 1887. The enthusiasm at the end was boundless.

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