Otello (Othello) (1986)
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Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined Zeffirelli's 1976 La Scala staging (production on the… More Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined Zeffirelli's 1976 La Scala staging (production on the film was briefly interrupted while Domingo participated in the rescue operations following the Mexico City earthquake). While Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona and Justino Diaz as Iago perform their own singing, Zeffirelli's Cassio--played by real-life European prince Urbano Barberini--is dubbed by Ezio de Cesare. The director made several cuts in the original libretto and score in order to accommodate the film's two-hour time limit, but these excisions are done with taste and discretion. Because of the excessive violence in the third act--two murders, a suicide, a superficial throat-slashing--Otello was released with a PG rating. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Genres
- Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Art House & International
PG,
- In Theaters
- Aug 28, 1986 Wide
- Studio
- Media Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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S. James Wegg, JWR
A spectacular vision of Verdi's Otello
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Cast
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Plácido Domingo
as Otello
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Katia Ricciarelli
as Desdemona
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Justino Díaz
as Iago
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Petra Malakova
as Emilia
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Urbano Barberini
as Cassio
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Sergio Nicolai
as Roderigo
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Edwin Francis
as Montano
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Massimo Foschi
as Lodovico
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Antonio Pierfederici
as Doge
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Remo Remotti
as Brabanzio
