Plácido Domingo; Cheryl Studer; Sergei Leiferkus; Ramon Vargas; “OTELLO“; Giuseppe Verdi

THIS IS THE SUCCESSOR CHANNEL TO “liederoperagreats“ WHICH WAS RECENTLY TERMINATED. Plácido Domingo--Otello Cheryl Studer--Desdemona Sergei Leiferkus--Iago Ramon Vargas--Cassio Michael Schade--Roderigo Ildebrando d’Arcangelo--Lodovico Denyce Graves--Emilia Myung-Whun Chung--conductor Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille 1993 ==================== Act 1 Otello, a Moorish general from Venice, returns to Cyprus after defeating the Saracens. His ensign, Iago, the incarnation of evil, starts a drunken brawl in order to discredit Otello’s captain, Cassio, and eventually get revenge on Otello himself. Otello becomes enraged and demotes Cassio. Then he returns to his young wife, Desdemona. A sparkling duet ensues, a moment of tenderness and light before dark clouds fill the sky. Act 2 Iago claims to believe in a cruel God. In order to destroy Otello little by little, he insinuates that Desdemona and Cassio are lovers. To make matters worse, D