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Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

Actors:

Otello... Jon Vickers

Desdemona... Mirella Freni

Jago... Peter Glossop

Emilia... Stefania Malagù

Cassio... Aldo Bottion

Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan

Artistic Supervisor: Herbert Von Karajan

This film by Hebert von Karajan is the best rendition of Verdi's "Otello" available in any video format. The conducting and singing are superb and the drama is expressed with the utmost intensity. Jon Vickers is the best Otello in recent memory, superior even to Placido Domingo in vocal and dramatic power. Mirella Freni is a bit light-voiced for Desdemona, but she sings beautifully and looks like an angel. Peter Glossop sings the role of Iago with beauty and power, and sets just the right tone of evil playfulness. Picture and sound quality are both just fine. The supporting cast is wonderful, too, and includes Jose van Dam (Lodovico) and Michel Senechal (Roderigo).

Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Actors:

Massimiliano Pisapia... Riccardo

Franco Vassallo... Renato

Chiara Taigi... Amelia

Anna Maria Chiuri... Ulrica

Eun Yee You... Oscar

Conductor: Riccardo Chailly

Stage Director: Ermanno Olmi

This film conflated from two live performances of 'Un Ballo in Maschera' comes from the Leipzig Opera and thus the marvelous Gewandhaus Orchestra is in the pit and the conductor is their new music director Riccardo Chailly, conducting his first-ever 'Ballo.' The singers are all

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