Otello

Product Description Oberto was Verdi's first staged operas and was heard for the first time at La Scala, Milan in November 1839. As a young and unknown composer, Verdi was subject to the rules governing the opera industry in Italy. Even so, there are many scenes in this early work that reveal unmistakable signs of the composer's individual style. Review With this release, the Tutto Verdi bicentennial collection has broken with its original concept to videotape productions "in and around Parma". Yet this imported Otello - from 2008 Salzburg Festival - is worth the breach. --David J Baker, Opera News