Verdi's Othello

Reviewer John Slavin
August 15, 2005

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra,
Hamer Hall, August 13

There are big forces at work in this concert version of Verdi's opera conducted by Oleg Caetani.

[.....] Antonello Palombi's Otello is distinguished by his energetic attack. At first he has rhetorical power as he takes control of the situation on Cyprus.

As the evening unfolded  the voice warmed and softened and once again it was the quality of quiet anguish that he brought to the murder scene that made its tragedy all the more unbearable.[....]

[.....]  this is without doubt one of the finest operatic events of the year.