Rent Otello: Metropolitan Opera (Yannick Nézet-Séguin) (2015)
1.0 of 5 from 2 ratings
2h 45min
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- Synopsis:
- Directed by the Tony Award-winning and six-time MET director, Bartlett Sher, this lavish production of Verdi's operatic masterpiece Otello features one of the most exciting young opera singers of her generation, Sonya Yoncheva, and the Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, conducted by their new Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Bartlett Sher probes the Moor's dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello's innocent wife and victim; and baritone Željko Lucic plays the evil Iago, who masterminds Otello's demise.
- Actors:
- Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tyler Duncan, Günther Groissböck, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Zeljko Lucic, Jeffrey Mattsey, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Dimitri Pittas, Chad Shelton, Sonya Yoncheva, Donald Palumbo, Eric Owens
- Directors:
- Gary Halvorson
- Producers:
- Louisa Briccetti, Victoria Warivonchik, David Frost, Peter Gelb, Bartlett Sher
- Writers:
- Arrigo Boito, William Shakespeare, Giuseppe Verdi
- Studio:
- Sony Music
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
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- Release Date:
- Not available for rental
