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Otello (Italian pronunciation:) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello.It was Verdi's penultimate opera, first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 5 February 1887.
Desdemona (/ ˌ d ɛ z d ə ˈ m oʊ n ə /) is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c. 1601–1604). Shakespeare's Desdemona is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator, when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy.
English: James Earl Jones performs from Shakespeare's Othello at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009. Note that the description at Whitehouse.gov claims here this performance is in the public domain.
Othello is a ballet in three acts based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. Choreography by Lar Lubovitch is set to an orchestral score composed by Elliot Goldenthal and released commercially on the Varèse Sarabande label.
Iago persuades Othello that Desdemona and Cassio have "the act of shame a thousand times committed"; [163] Emilia says Iago "hath a hundred times" [164] asked her to steal the handkerchief; Bianca complains Cassio has been away from her "a week"; [165] news of the Turkish defeat needs time to reach Venice then Lodovico needs time to reach ...
Michael Cassio, or simply Cassio (/ ˈ k æ s i oʊ /), is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello.The source of the character is the 1565 tale "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio; Cassio is unnamed in Cinthio but referred to as "the squadron leader".
Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to make Othello believe that his wife Desdemona is cheating on him with Cassio.
"I think he was the greatest directorial talent we've ever had in the [American] theater", Lloyd said of Welles in a 2014 interview. "When you saw a Welles production, you saw the text had been affected, the staging was remarkable, the sets were unusual, music, sound, lighting, a totality of everything. We had not had such a man in our theater.