'Si, pel ciel marmoreo giuro' Otello, G. Verdi - Enrico Caruso and Tita Ruffo (100 years ago: 1914)

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Othello (original title in Italian, Otello) is a four-act opera with music by Giuseppe Verdi and a libretto in Italian by Arrigo Boito, based on the work of Shakespeare Othello, the Moor of Venice.

Place and date of premiere: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887.
Roles:
-Otello, Moor, general of the Venetian navy (dramatic tenor)
-Desdemona, his wife (lyrical soprano-spinto)
-Yago, Ensign of Othello (dramatic baritone)
-Emilia, his wife (mezzo-soprano)
-Lodovico (Ludovico), ambassador of Venice (bass)
-Heraldo (bass or baritone)
-Cassio, captain (lyrical or light tenor)
-Roderigo (Rodrigo), Venetian knight (lyrical or light tenor)
-Montano, Othello's predecessor in the Cyprus government (bass)
Soldiers, courtiers, people of Cyprus

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[radames]

Caruso come Otello è fantastico! Ruffa altrettanto grande! Grazie

[hectorbravo]

No hay caso. Un duetto de antología. Lástima que Caruso no llegó a cantar Otello completo y en público.
Con este par de cantantes la vara habría quedado imposible para todos los que los siguieron.