Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini's opera, Otello
- Written by Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
Othello and Desdemona, Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, circa 1827.Wikimedia, CC BY-SA
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If you attend Rossini’s opera Otello (1813) expecting something close to the structure and poetry of Shakepeare’s original – as Lord Byron did when he went to a performance in Venice in 1818 – you will be disappointed. “They...
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