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111320-21 Bk Otelloeu 12/18/07 4:06 PM Page 8 111320-21 bk OtelloEU 12/18/07 4:06 PM Page 8 recently seen this handkerchief in Cassio’s hand. 0 The Venetian ambassador, Lodovico, Desdemona, ADD £ Otello is roused to jealous fury and swears Emilia and the court enter. Lodovico hands Otello a Great Opera Performances vengeance. Iago kneels beside him and vows to assist message from the Doge. While reading it, Otello 8.111320-21 him. continues to mutter bitter asides at Desdemona. He has been recalled to Venice and Cassio appointed in his CD 2 place. While announcing that he will set sail the following morning, he flings Desdemona to the ground. 1 Opening announcement ! Desdemona sings of her misery, and in the ensuing VERDI 2 CDs 2 Spoken synopsis of Act III ensemble Iago promises Otello that he will kill Cassio. Otello dismisses the court and curses Desdemona. At Otello Act III: The great hall of the castle this point alone except for Iago, Otello succumbs to a fit of epilepsy. As Otello lies prostrate on the floor, Iago Ramón Vinay • Herva Nelli • Giuseppe Valdengo 3 There is an orchestral introduction. mocks the fallen Lion of Venice. 4 A Herald announces that the galley bringing the NBC Symphony Orchestra and Choruses Venetian ambassadors has been sighted. Otello @ Spoken synopsis of Act IV acknowledges this, but continues talking to Iago. Iago is Arturo Toscanini planning to lure Cassio into the hall and into talking Act IV: Desdemona’s chamber about Desdemona. Recorded in 1947 5 Desdemona enters and once more tries to persuade # Emilia helps Desdemona to prepare for bed. Otello to reinstate Cassio. Again claiming to have a $ Desdemona sadly recalls a song of unrequited love headache he asks Desdemona for the handkerchief sung by her mother’s servant, Barbara, the Willow which he gave her. When she is unable to produce it, he song. becomes violent, accuses her of adultery despite her % She gives a ring to Emilia, says farewell to her, prays protestations of innocence, and forces her out of the to the Virgin Mary, and goes to bed. hall. ^ Otello enters, places his sword by a lamp, uncertain 6 Alone he reflects on his misery. Iago enters and whether or not to extinguish it. He looks at Desdemona makes Otello hide behind a pillar. and puts out the light. He kisses the sleeping 7 Cassio enters and Iago banters with him about the Desdemona three times – on the third kiss she awakes. whore Bianca, but Otello believes them to be talking He taunts her with her alleged infidelity with Cassio, about Desdemona. Encouraged by Iago, Cassio which she vehemently denies. Otello tells her that produces the handkerchief which Iago had earlier Cassio is dead. Shocked, Desdemona pleads for her life planted in his room, and Iago ensures that Otello sees it. but to no avail: Otello strangles her. 8 While Cassio and Iago admire the handkerchief, & Emilia immediately enters with the news that Cassio Otello believes it to reveal treachery. A trumpet has killed Roderigo. Desdemona calls weakly from her announces the arrival of the Venetian galley and Cassio bed, and dies. Emilia cries for help and Lodovico, leaves. Cassio, Iago, and Montano enter. Iago is challenged by 9 A distraught Otello decides to kill Desdemona by Emilia, and his plotting revealed: he flees. poison but Iago suggests smothering her instead. Otello * Completely broken, Otello draws his dagger and pronounces Iago his captain. stabs himself as he seeks a final kiss from the body of Desdemona. Keith Anderson 8.111320-21 8 111320-21 bk OtelloEU 12/18/07 4:06 PM Page 2 Synopsis # Spoken synopsis of Act II CD 1 Act II: A hall on the ground floor of the castle, Great Opera Performances separated from the garden by a glass-paneled door 1 Opening announcement 2 Spoken synopsis of Act 1 $ Cassio and Iago have been conversing and Iago Giuseppe assures Cassio that he will regain Otello’s esteem, Act I: A seaport with a castle in Cyprus during the especially if he asks Desdemona to intercede on his VERDI fifteenth century behalf. He advises Cassio to approach her in the garden (1813-1901) where she is strolling with Iago’s wife, Emilia. 3 A storm is raging. A crowd watches anxiously as the % As Cassio departs Iago gives vent to his ‘Credo’: he ship of Otello, the Governor of Cyprus and a Moor, tries believes in a cruel god who has made man in his own Otello to reach the shelter of the harbour. image. Death is nothing and heaven a lie. 4 The ship enters port safely and Otello exultantly ^ He watches as Cassio converses with Desdemona. Lyric Drama in 4 Acts • Libretto by Arrigo Boito (from Shakespeare) makes his triumphant entry. He announces his most & As Otello enters Iago appears to mutter words of recent military victory, before entering the castle concern. Pressed by Otello, Iago with apparent accompanied by his lieutenant, Cassio. The crowds Otello . Ramón Vinay reluctance hints at an illicit relationship between Cassio salute Otello as their leader. Iago, Otello’s ensign, tells and Desdemona. As Otello becomes distracted, Iago Desdemona . Herva Nelli Roderigo (who has travelled from Venice because of his warns him to beware of jealousy but to watch his wife Iago . Giuseppe Valdengo love for Otello’s wife Desdemona and whom Iago has carefully. promised to help to gain her) how he hates Otello for * Desdemona reappears in the garden, surrounded by Cassio . Virginio Assandri promoting Cassio over him. women and children who serenade her. Emilia . Nan Merriman 5 The crowds create a bonfire to celebrate. ( After they have dispersed, Desdemona intercedes on 6 Cassio is persuaded to drink by Iago. Cassio’s behalf with Otello. Otello claims to have a Roderigo . Leslie Chabay 7 Iago knows that Cassio cannot hold his liquor, and headache, but when Desdemona produces a Lodovico . Nicola Moscona encourages a brawl between him and Roderigo. handkerchief to soothe his brow, he flings it to the floor. 8 Montano, Otello’s predecessor as Governor of Montàno . Arthur Newman Emilia picks it up but Iago quietly takes it from her. Cyprus, enters to call Cassio to his duty as the captain of Given to Desdemona by Otello when they first met, it is the guard, and is shocked to see him drunk. Cassio a precious gift and one of which Iago is sure he can NBC Symphony Orchestra and Choruses draws his sword against Montano. Iago sends Roderigo make use in the future. Desdemona and Emilia depart. off to raise a general alarm. ) As Otello gets more distracted, Iago advises him to Arturo Toscanini 9 With the fighting at its height and the alarm bells think no more of his concerns. Otello flares up and tolling, Otello enters and demands to know how the accuses him of planting the idea of treachery in his quarrel has arisen. Iago disingenuously suggests that mind. Acts I & II broadcast on 6 December, 1947 Cassio is to blame. Aroused by the noise, Desdemona ¡ In a passionate outburst he foresees his memories Acts III & IV broadcast on 13 December, 1947 enters. Otello angrily tells Cassio that he is no longer his and triumphs shattered by the idea of Desdemona’s lieutenant. The crowd disperses. infidelity. He demands proof of this from Iago. Announcer: Ben Grauer 0 Otello turns to Desdemona and tells her how, like the ™ Iago tells him of how one night, sleeping beside night, his love for her banishes thoughts of violence. Cassio, he had heard him talk of Desdemona as though ! The two recall the growth of their love for each they were lovers. But this was only a dream. He can Thanks to Eugene S. Pollioni other. produce firm evidence: does not Otello remember an @ Otello is carried away by the intensity of the moment embroidered handkerchief which he gave to and seeks a kiss from Desdemona. They embrace and Desdemona? Otello can remember it – it was his first slowly enter the castle. pledge of love to her. Iago tells Otello that he has 8.111320-21 27 8.111320-21 111320-21 bk OtelloEU 12/18/07 4:06 PM Page 6 advertising, as the greatest conductor alive. This process once again as Otello. His singing of this rôle with CD 1 75:17 # Spoken synopsis, Act II 3:10 was to be further emphasized by the introduction of Toscanini launched his international career: he went on long-playing records in 1948 and the swift appearance of to appear in both Italian and German repertoire in Broadcast 6 December 1947 Act II 33:46 longer, generally complete, works in the record Bayreuth, Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Salzburg, and catalogue. RCA and NBC’s promotion of Toscanini was Vienna, singing under conductors such as Furtwängler 1 Opening announcement 1:49 $ Non ti cruciar 2:19 further intensified with the broadcasting on the new and Beecham. He returned to singing baritone rôles in (Iago, Cassio) medium of television of two of the concerts in the NBC 1962, and last sang in public in 1974. 2 Spoken synopsis, Act I 2:35 Symphony Orchestra’s 1947-48 season. It was during Singing opposite Vinay was Giuseppe Valdengo % Credo in un Dio crudel (Iago’s Credo) 4:27 this season of NBC concerts that the performances of (1914-2007) as Iago. He studied violin, oboe and singing Act I 33:57 (Iago) Otello heard on this recording, which were spread over at the Turin Conservatory, and after singing subsidiary two evenings though not themselves televised, took rôles, made his début as a principal in Rossini’s The 3 Una vela! 4:16 ^ Eccola 1:22 place.
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