OTELLO

By Giuseppe Verdi

Premiere
Opernhaus Kiel, 20.6.2004

Conductor :: Georg Fritzch
Director :: Inga Levant
Set & lighting :: Giuseppe Di Iorio
Costumes :: Friedrich Eggert

Cast
Otello :: Lars Cleveman
Jago :: Jooil Choi
Desdemona :: Marion Costa
Cassio :: Peter Lodahl
Emilia :: Marina Fideli
Rodrigo :: Hans-Jürgen Schöpflin
Lodovico :: Trond Gudevold
Montano :: Attila Kovács

"Opera Kiel presents Verdi's late masterpiece in a conclusive and unusual concept… Nightmare-like images and insane visions, reality and fantasies…psychological interpretation… psychodellically gleaming flowers… surrealistic costumes… A long, respectful silence between the orchestra's last tone and the enthusiastic applause of the audience are proof for a more than successful production."
kiel4kiel.de, 24. August 2004

"In her perfectly original interpretation Inga Levant shows how far a production can go without violating the piece.
(…) Ovations from an enthusiastic premiere's audience."
Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung, 22. Juni 2004