This page lists all recordings of Otello (Othello), by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) on CD & DVD. Generally, more recent CDs and DVDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa & Sergei Leiferkus The Royal Opera & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Georg Solti Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
London on 23rd & 27th October 1992. ‘Pure gold from the top team… Here was an evening to cherish, one to go straight into the memory in firmest indelible ink… The combination of Domingo and Solti promised gold and delivered every ounce expected.’ The Times “The great work and the great performance; and, crucially, both gain from the filming. …is deeply impressive, and moving, to see how completely Domingo lives his role Te Kanawa too shows herself alive to every suggestion of her music and words.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2008 “Sergei Leiferkus's dark Russian tone… suits Iago down to the ground. Kiri Te Kanawa's limpid tone makes her a near-ideal Desdemona… Plácido Domingo… is noble and heroic.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Del Monaco, de Los Angeles, Warren & Elias Fausto Cleva Recorded live at The Metropolitan Opera 8th March 1958 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ramon Vinay, Herva Nelli, Giuseppe Valdengo, Virginio Assandri, Nan Merriman & Leslie Chabay NBC Symphony Orchestra and Choruses, Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini was the second cellist in the orchestra of La Scala, Milan, for the triumphant first performance of Verdi’s Otello on 5th February 1887. Sixty years later he led a radio broadcast of Otello spread over two evenings that is considered by many to be the most successful of his opera recordings for NBC. Described by one of Toscanini’s biographers, Joseph Horowitz, as ‘the one that comes closest to recapturing Toscanini’s revolutionary impact in the pit’, this December 1947 recording is remarkable for Toscanini’s dramatic grasp of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, and his scrupulous observation of Verdi’s most detailed dynamic markings. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli & Justino Diaz Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Lorin Maazel A full libretto and sound sample can be downloaded here | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Hans Hopf (Otello), Annelies Kupper (Desdemona), Ferdinand Frantz (Iago), Waldemar Kmentt (Cassio), Karl Ostertag (Roderigo), Max Proebstl (Lodovico) & Hetty Plümacher (Emilia) Bavarian Radio, Eugen Jochum Recorded Munich December 1955 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Kiri Te Kanawa, Piero Cappuccilli & Vladimir Atlantov Orchester & Chor der/orchestre et chśur de Arena di Verona, Zoltan Pesko | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Alexander Miltschinoff (Otello); Brünnhild Friedland (Desdemona); Hans Löbel (Iago); Gerhard Stolze (Cassio); Hans- Peter Schwarzbach (Roderigo); Peter Roth (Lodovico): Helmut Eile (Montano); Emilie Walter-Sacks (Emilia) Leipzig Radio Orchestra & Chorus, Herbert Kegel Leipzig 1954, sung in German | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, James Morris The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Placido Domingo, Sherill Milnes, Frank Little& Renata Scotto National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Plácido Domingo, Cheryl Studer, Sergei Leiferkus Orchestra & Chorus of Bastille Opera, Myung-Whun Chung Diapason d'or award, 1995 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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