VERDI: Otello Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Riccardo Muti

• Act I
• 1Una vela! (Chorus, Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo)04:27
• 2Esultate! (Otello, Chorus)02:27
• 3Roderigo, ebben che pensi? (Iago, Roderigo)02:21
• 4Fuoco di gioia! (Chorus, Iago, Cassio, Roderigo)04:03
• 5Inaffia l'ugola! (Iago, Cassio, Roderigo, Chorus)04:04
• 6Capitano, v'attende (Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo, Chorus)01:18
• 7Abbasso le spade! (Otello, Iago, Cassio, Montano)03:12
• 8Gia nella notte (Otello, Desdemona)10:40
• Act II
• 9Non ti crucciar (Iago, Cassio)02:53
• 10Credo in un Dio crudel, 'Iago's Credo' (Iago)04:13
• 11Eccola (Iago, Otello, Chorus)06:33
• 12Dove guardi splendono (Chorus, Desdemona, Otello, Iago)04:01
• 13D'un uom che geme (Desdemona, Otello, Iago, Emilia)04:49
• 14Desdemona rea! (Otello, Iago)05:28
• 15Era la notte (Iago, Otello)04:01
• 16Si, pel ciel (Otello, Iago)02:24
• Act III
• 17La vedetta del porto (Herald, Otello, Iago, Desdemona)02:39
• 18Dio ti giocondi, o sposo (Desdemona, Otello)10:06
• 19Dio! Mi potevi scagliar (Otello, Iago)04:05
• 20Vieni, l'aula e deserta (Iago, Cassio, Otello)03:59
• 21Questa e una ragna (Iago, Cassio, Otello, Chorus)03:19
• 22Viva! Evviva! (Chorus, Lodovico, Otello, Desdemona, Emilia, Iago)05:31
• 23A terra! si nel livido fango (Desdemona, Emilia, Cassio, Roderigo, Lodovico, Chorus, Iago, Otello)07:36
• Act IV
• 24Era piu calmo? (Emilia, Desdemona)04:45
• 25Piangea cantando nell'erma landa (Desdemona, Emilia)06:41
• 26Ave Maria (Desdemona)05:01
• 27Chi e la? (Desdemona, Otello)06:46
• 28Aprite! Aprite! (Emilia, Otello, Desdemona, Cassio, Iago, Lodovico, Montano)03:17
• 29Niun mi tema (Otello, Cassio, Lodovico, Montano)05:18
• Total Runtime02:15:57

Info for VERDI: Otello

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi s birthday, CSO Resound releases its second recording with Maestro Riccardo Muti featuring Verdi s second-to-last opera, 'Otello'. The recording joins remarkable fidelity to the instrumental and choral score with a spellbinding collection of vocal soloists, and will be treasured by opera lovers and anyone who enjoys thrilling music. Recorded live in concert at Symphony Center in 2011, this album will stand as benchmark in Verdi performance and interpretation by one of today s finest conductors. Maestro Muti and the CSO s first recording together was a lauded album of Verdi s 'Messa da Requiem', which won two Grammy® Awards. A musical force in Chicago and around the world, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the finest international orchestras. Its expansive catalogue of more than 900 recordings has earned 62 Grammy® Awards more than any other orchestra in the world.

“[Muti's] pressured, detailed style suits Otello rather well...Stoyanova's assertive Desdemona and Aleksandrs Antonenko's Otello [are] among the finest on disc, beautifully sung and wonderfully insightful in his depiction of the Moor's psychological disintegration. The playing is sensational.” (The Guardian)

“[Muti's] Otello has a new expansiveness, while not losing his earlier, youthful impulsiveness. Antonenko has emerged as the Otello of his generation... Stoyanova is an exquisite Desdemona, Carlo Guelfi a shouty, malevolent Iago.” (Sunday Times)

Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), tenor
Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), soprano
Carlo Guelfi (Iago), baritone
Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), mezzo-soprano
Juan Francisco Gatell (Cassio), tenor
Michael Spyres (Rodrigo), tenor
Paolo Battaglia (Montano), bass
Eric Owens (Lodovico), bass-baritone
David Govertsen (Herald), bass
Chicago Children’s Choir
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Recorded live in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center April 7, 9 and 12, 2011.
Produced by David Frost
Engineered by Christopher Willis

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Booklet for VERDI: Otello