2024-07-31 13:51:37
Verdi’s masterpiece opera ‘Otello’ will be performed in Seoul just as it was on the stage of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.
The Seoul Arts Center recently announced that the Royal Opera House production of the opera ‘Otello’ will be performed at the Seoul Arts Center Opera House from the 18th to the 25th. Carlo Ricci, a maestro of opera conducting who served as the music director of the Welsh National Opera and conducted the complete albums of Verdi’s ‘Un Ballo in Masquerade’ and ‘La Traviata’, will be conducting. Ricci will also hold a public conductor workshop at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall at 2 PM on the 5th.
‘Otello’ is a work that Giuseppe Verdi, who is considered one of the representative masters of Italian opera along with Puccini, presented in 1887 at the age of 73, 16 years after his previous work, ‘Aida’. It is an opera based on Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello’. It is a masterpiece that is evaluated to have amplified the jealousy, destruction, and conflict of the main character in the original work through the power of music.
The first thing that is expected in this performance is the skill of director Keith Warner. The ‘Otello’ he presented at the Royal Opera in 2017 was praised as a ‘symbolic and dramatic performance’ immediately after its release and has been performed repeatedly over several seasons.
The Arts Center said, “Please pay attention to the choir scene sung by 80 adult choir members and 14 children’s choir members as soon as Act 1 begins.” It is a dramatic scene where the main character, Venetian general Otello’s fleet defeats the Turkish fleet and returns to Cyprus in a storm. The contrast of light created by lighting designer Bruno Poet is also expected to increase the dramatic tension. For the action scenes in the piece, the original production’s martial arts director will visit Korea to guide the performers and express the battles and conflicts unfolding on stage more realistically.
The main character, Otello, will be played by tenors Lee Yong-hoon and Teodor Ilinkai. Lee Yong-hoon is known as the Korean tenor who can best handle dramatic roles, and he proved his skills in Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Seoul Metropolitan Opera last October. Ilinkai, who is from Romania, has been active in Verdi and Puccini operas at Covent Garden, the Australian Opera, and the New National Theater in Tokyo. The female protagonist, Desdemona, who is sacrificed to Otello’s jealousy, will be played by German-Armenian soprano Hrachuhi Basenc and soprano Hong Joo-young, a professor at Chugye University for the Arts. Hong Joo-young has received acclaim for her roles in Puccini’s “La Bohème” and other roles. The role of Iago, considered the archetype of a villain in opera history, will be played by baritones Marco Bratona and Nicoloz Lagvilava.
Culture reporter Yoo Yoon-jong [email protected]
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2024-07-31 13:51:37