Otello discography

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This is a discography of Giuseppe Verdi's penultimate opera, Otello. It was first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 5 February 1887.

Otello has been recorded complete on disc and film a number of times since World War II, but most music-guide reviewers contend that a recording made of a 1947 NBC radio broadcast of the opera conducted by Arturo Toscanini and featuring singers Herva Nelli, Ramón Vinay and Giuseppe Valdengo, is musically the best of these versions.Unk: "I still rank the Toscanini Otello with the famous Scala Tosca recording under De Sabata, as one of the finest opera recordings ever made — not of course comparable technically with the modern stereophonic achievements — but possessing a ..." in Opera (London), Vol. 20, 1969. p. 1080 RCA Victor has issued the Toscanini recording several times on commercial LPs and on CD in digitally remastered form. In addition, performances of Otello were captured live as early as the 1920s (at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London) and the 1930s (at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, the latter via the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts). They, too, are available on CD reissues. A wide variety of stage performances dating from the 1950s to the present day are also to be had on CD or on DVD.

Audio and video recordings

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!Year

!Otello
Desdemona
Iago
Cassio
Emilia

!Conductor
Orchestra and chorus

!Label[http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLVEOTEL.HTM Recordings on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk]

1931–1932

|Nicola Fusati
Maria Carbone
Apollo Granforte
Piero Girardi
Tamara Beltacchi

|Carlo Sabajno
La Scala Orchestra and Chorus

|CD: Preiser Records
Cat: 20012

1938

|Giovanni Martinelli
Elisabeth Rethberg
Lawrence Tibbett
Nicholas Massue
Thelma Votipka

|Ettore Panizza
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus

|CD: Naxos Historical
Cat: 8.111018-19

1941

|Giovanni Martinelli
Stella Roman
Lawrence Tibbett
Alessio de Paolis
Thelma Votipka

|Ettore Panizza
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus

|CD: Arkadia
Cat: 50003

1944

|Torsten Ralf
Hilde Konetzni
Paul Schöffler
Josef Witt
Elena Nikolaidi

|Karl Böhm
Wiener Staatsoper orchestra and chorus
Performed in German

|CD: Myto
Cat: MCD 922.60

1946

|Torsten Ralf
Stella Roman
Leonard Warren
Alessio de Paolis
Martha Lipton

|George Szell
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus

|CD: Walhall
Cat: WLCD 0107

1947

|Ramón Vinay
Herva Nelli
Giuseppe Valdengo
Virginio Assandri
Nan Merriman

|Arturo Toscanini
NBC Symphony Orchestra and chorus

|LP: RCA Victor
Cat: LM-6107
Decca Cat: RB 16093-5
CD: RCA Victor
Cat: 60302

1948

|Giovanni Martinelli
June Haas-Kelly
Cesare Bardelli
John Carmen Rossi
Mildred Ippolito

|Giuseppe Bamboschek
Orchestra and chorus of La Scala Opera

|CD: Grammofono
Cat: 2000 AB 78.935/36

1948

|Ramón Vinay
Licia Albanese
Leonard Warren
John Garris
Martha Lipton

|Fritz Busch
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus

|CD: Preiser
Cat: 90377

1950

|Mario Del Monaco
Delia Rigal
Carlos Guichandut
Eugenio Valori
Emma Brizzi

|Antonino Votto
Teatro Colon orchestra and chorus

|CD: Myto
Cat: 004 H051

1951

|Ramón Vinay
Carla Martinis
Paul Schöffler
Anton Dermota
Sieglinde Wagner

|Wilhelm Furtwängler
Vienna Philharmonic and Wiener Staatsoper chorus

|CD: EMI
Cat: CMS 5 65751-2

1951

|Gino Sarri
Anna La Polla
Antonio Manca Serra
Athos Cesarini
Ada Landi

|Alberto Paoletti
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

|CD: Preiser Records
Cat: 20031

1953-54

|Set Svanholm
Aase Nordmo-Lovberg
Sigurd Björling
Arne Ohlson
Bette Björling

|Sixten Ehrling
Kungliga Hovkapellet and chorus
Performed in Swedish

|CD: Preiser
Cat: 90754

1954

|Mario Del Monaco
Renata Tebaldi
Leonard Warren
Giuseppe Zampieri
Anna Maria Canali

|Antonino Votto
La Scala

|CD: Melodram
Cat: CDM 270101

1954

|Mario Del Monaco
Renata Tebaldi
Aldo Protti
Piero de Palma
Luisa Ribacchi

|Alberto Erede
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus

|CD: Decca
Cat: 440 245-2

1955

|Ramón Vinay
Gré Brouwenstijn
Otakar Kraus
John Lanigan
Noreen Berry

|Rafael Kubelik
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra

|CD: Royal Opera House Heritage
Cat: ROHS 001

1958

|Mario Del Monaco
Victoria de los Angeles
Leonard Warren
Paul Franke
Rosalind Elias

|Fausto Cleva
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus

|CD: Pristine
Cat: Paco154

1958

|Ramón Vinay
Antonietta Stella
Giuseppe Taddei
Italo Pasini
Zaira Negroni

|Thomas Beecham
Teatro Colón

|CD: IDIS
Cat: 6547/48

1959

|Mario Del Monaco
Gabriella Tucci
Tito Gobbi
Mariano Caruso
Anna Di Stasio

|Alberto Erede
NHK Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

|CD: Opera d'Oro, OPD-1160.

1960

|Mario Del Monaco
Floriana Cavalli
Tito Gobbi
Agostino Lazzari
Dora Minarchi

|Franco Capuana
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

|CD: Myto
Cat: 00267

1960

|Jon Vickers
Leonie Rysanek
Tito Gobbi
Florindo Andreolli
Miriam Pirazzini

|Tullio Serafin
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus

|LP: RCA Gold Seal
Cat: AGL3-1969
CD: RCA Red Seal
Cat: 8875196362

1961

|Mario Del Monaco
Renata Tebaldi
Aldo Protti
Nello Romanato
Ana Raquel Satre

|Herbert von Karajan
Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsopernchor

|CD: Decca
Cat: 028941161826

1967

|James McCracken
Montserrat Caballé
Tito Gobbi
Ermanno Lorenzi
Shirley Love

|Zubin Mehta
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus

|CD: Living Stage
Cat: LS 4035175

1968

|James McCracken
Gwyneth Jones
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Piero de Palma
Anna Di Stasio

|John Barbirolli
Philharmonia Orchestra and Ambrosian Chorus

|CD: EMI
Cat: 65296

1973

|Jon Vickers
Mirella Freni
Peter Glossop
Aldo Bottion
Stefania Malagù

|Herbert von Karajan
Berliner Philharmoniker and Chor der Deutsche Oper Berlin

|CD: EMI
Cat: CMS 769 3082

1976

|Plácido Domingo
Mirella Freni
Piero Cappuccilli
Giuliano Ciannella
Jone Jori

|Carlos Kleiber
La Scala Orchestra and Chorus

|CD: Opera d'Oro
Cat: OPD 7005

1977

|Carlo Cossutta
Julia Varady
Piero Cappuccilli
Benito Maresca
Gudrun Wewezow

|Carlos Kleiber
Bayerische Staatsoper

|CD: Golden Melodram
Cat: GM 5.0061

1977

|Carlo Cossutta
Margaret Price
Gabriel Bacquier
Peter Dvorsky
Jane Berbié

|Georg Solti
Wiener Philharmoniker Wiener Staatsoperchor and Wiener Sängerknaben

|CD: Decca
Cat: 440-045-2

1978

|Plácido Domingo
Renata Scotto
Sherrill Milnes
Paul Crook
Jean Kraft

|James Levine
National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

|LP: RCA Red Seal
Cat: CRL3-2951
CD: RCA Red Seal
Cat: 8883729722

1978

|Jon Vickers
Renata Scotto
Cornell MacNeil
Frank Little
Jean Kraft

|James Levine
The Metropolitan Opera

|DVD: Met Opera
Cat: 811357012185

1982

|Vladimir Atlantov
Kiri Te Kanawa
Piero Cappuccilli
Antonio Bevacqua
Flora Rafanelli

|Zoltán Peskó
Verona Arena

|DVD: Warner Music Vision
Cat: 4509 99214 2

1983

|Charles Craig
Rosalind Plowright
Neil Howlett
Bonaventura Bottone
Shelagh Squires

|Mark Elder
English National Opera
Performed in English

|CD: Chandos
Cat: CHAN 3068

1986

|Plácido Domingo
Katia Ricciarelli
Justino Díaz
Ezio di Cesare
Petra Malakova

|Lorin Maazel
La Scala orchestra and chorus
(Othello, film directed by Franco Zeffirelli.In the film, some of the music was omitted, but the soundtrack album of the film, released on EMI, features the complete opera.)

|DVD: MGM
Cat: 0 27616 88420 6

1987

|Plácido Domingo
Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Renato Bruson
Kaludi Kaludov
Margarita Lilowa

|Zubin Mehta
Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

|CD: Orfeo
Cat: C698072I

1991

|Giuseppe Giacomini
Margaret Price
Matteo Manuguerra
Dino Di Domenico
Martine Mahé

|Alain Lombard
Orchestra National Bourdeaux Aquitaine

|CD: Forlane
Cat: 216 774

1991

|Luciano Pavarotti
Kiri Te Kanawa
Leo Nucci
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson
Elzbieta Ardam

|Georg Solti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

|CD: Decca (London)
Cat: 433 669-2

1992

|Plácido Domingo
Kiri Te Kanawa
Sergei Leiferkus
Robin Leggate
Claire Powell

|Georg Solti
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus and Orchestra

|DVD: Kultur Video
Cat: 0 32031 14929 8

1994

|Plácido Domingo
Cheryl Studer
Sergei Leiferkus
Ramón Vargas
Denyce Graves

|Myung-whun Chung
Opéra Bastille, Paris

|CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 439 805-2

1995

|Plácido Domingo
Renée Fleming
James Morris
Richard Croft
Jane Bunnell

|James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus

|DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 00440 073 0929

1996

| Nicola Martinucci
Miriam Gauci
Eduard Tumagian
Mauricio Septien
Mabel Perelstein

|Alexander Rahbari
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia

|CD: Koch
Cat: DICD 929 435-6

2001

|Christian Franz
Emily Magee
Valery Alexeev
Stephan Rügamer
Katharina Kammerloher

|Daniel Barenboim
Berliner Staatsoper

|DVD: ArtHaus Musik
Cat: 100 347

2001

|Plácido Domingo
Barbara Frittoli
Leo Nucci
Cesare Catani
Rossana Rinaldi

|Riccardo Muti
La Scala orchestra and chorus

|DVD: TDK
Cat: 8 2412100019 6

2006

|José Cura
Krassimira Stoyanova
Lado Atanelli
Vittorio Grigolo
Ketevan Kemoklidze

|Antoni Ros Marbà
Orchestra and Chorus of Gran Teatro del Liceo

|DVD: Opus Arte
Cat: OA 0963D

2008

|Aleksandrs Antonenko
Marina Poplavskaya
Carlos Álvarez
Stephen Costello
Barbara di Castri

|Riccardo Muti
Vienna Philharmonic
Salzburg Festival

|Blu-ray: Naxos
Cat: 701504

2010

|Simon O'Neill
Anne Schwanewilms
Gerald Finley
Allan Clayton
Eufemia Tufano

|Colin Davis
London Symphony Orchestra and chorus

|CD: LSO Live
Cat: 0700

2013

|Aleksandrs Antoņenko
Krassimira Stoyanova
Carlo Guelfi
Juan Francisco Gatell
Barbara di Castri

|Riccardo Muti
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

|CD: CSO Resound
Cat: CSOR 901 1301

2014

|Robert Dean Smith
Raffaella Angeletti
Sebastian Catana
Luis Dámasco
Marifé Nogales

|Friedrich Haider
Oviedo Filarmonía

|CD: Naxos
Cat: 866035758

2015

|Aleksandrs Antoņenko
Sonya Yoncheva
Željko Lučić

|Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Metropolitan Opera
(Recorded live 17 October)[http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=356065 CID: 356065], Met Opera Archive.

Streaming video in HD: Met Opera on Demand[https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=811357018026 Otello (2015)] at Met Opera on Demand.
2017

|Nikolai Schukoff
Melody Moore
Lester Lynch
Jun Ho You
Helena Zubanovich

|Lawrence Foster
Gulbenkian Orchestra and choir

|CD: Pentatone
Cat: PTC 5186562

2018

|Jonas Kaufmann,
Maria Agresta
Marco Vratogna

|Antonio Pappano
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House

|Blu-ray: Sony
Cat: 88985491969

2020

|Jonas Kaufmann,
Federica Lombardi
Carlos Álvarez
Liparit Avetisyan
Virginie Verrez

|Antonio Pappano
Chorus and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

|CD: Sony
Cat:19439707932

Extracts

Individual arias, duets and scenes from Otello have been committed to disc by many celebrated tenors, baritones and sopranos since acceptable audio technology was first developed in the early 20th century. The best of these recorded extracts have been reissued on CD and make for fascinating comparative listening. Recordings made in the early 1900s by the creators of the roles of Otello and Iago, namely Francesco Tamagno and Victor Maurel, are among those now available in digital formats.

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