Otello 

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By -- Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito, Andrew Porter

Published by -- John Calder / Riverrun Press, 1988, London UK / New York NY, 80 Pages, Illustrated, Musical Notation, Trade Paperback, 8.5" X 5.5" X .2", 4 oz., ISBN -- 0714538507 / 9780714538501

Series -- English National Opera Guide, No. 7

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"English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Winton Dean relates how Otello came into being as much because of the persistence of Verdi's publisher as of the composer's lifelong passion for Shakespeare, and the collaboration of the brilliant poet Arrigo Boito. Benedict Sarnaker argues that this magnificent large-scale opera rivals Shakespeare in intensity and profundity. William Weaver's lively review of Shakespeare on the Italian stage in the last century enables us to make a wholely fresh appraisal of Verdi's stature as a dramatist. The libretto itself is a masterpiece and Andrew Porter has also translated the third act revision which Verdi came to prefer and which has not been performed outside France before 1981 ENO production."

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