Otello discography

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.[1] 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
Year Cast
(Otello,
Desdemona,
Iago)		 Conductor,
opera house and orchestra		 Label[2]
1931–1932Nicola Fusati,
Maria Carbone,
Apollo Granforte		Carlo Sabajno,
La Scala Orchestra and Chorus		CD: Preiser Records
Cat: 20012
1947Ramón Vinay,
Herva Nelli,
Giuseppe Valdengo		Arturo Toscanini,
NBC Symphony Orchestra and chorus		LP: Decca pressed RB 16093-5 CD: RCA Victor Cat: 60302
1954Mario Del Monaco,
Renata Tebaldi,
Aldo Protti		Alberto Erede,
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus		CD: Decca
1959Mario Del Monaco,
Gabriella Tucci,
Tito Gobbi		Alberto Erede,
NHK Symphony Orchestra and Chorus		CD: Opera d'Oro, OPD-1160.
1960Jon Vickers,
Leonie Rysanek,
Tito Gobbi		Tullio Serafin,
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus		CD: RCA Victor
Cat: 663180
1961Mario Del Monaco,
Renata Tebaldi,
Aldo Protti		Herbert von Karajan,
Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsopernchor		CD: Decca
Cat: 028941161826
1968James McCracken,
Dame Gwyneth Jones,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau		Sir John Barbirolli,
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Chorus		CD: EMI
Cat: 65296
1973Jon Vickers,
Mirella Freni,
Peter Glossop		Herbert von Karajan,
Berliner Philharmoniker and Chor der Deutsche Oper Berlin		CD: EMI
Cat: CMS 769 3082
1976Plácido Domingo,
Mirella Freni,
Piero Cappuccilli		Carlos Kleiber,
La Scala Orchestra and Chorus		CD: Opera d'Oro
Cat: OPD 7005
1977Carlo Cossutta,
Margaret Price,
Gabriel Bacquier		Sir Georg Solti,
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor and Wiener Sängerknaben		CD: Decca
Cat: 440-045-2
1978Plácido Domingo,
Renata Scotto,
Sherrill Milnes		James Levine,
National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus		CD: RCA Red Seal
Cat: 8883729722
1978Jon Vickers,
Renata Scotto,
Cornell MacNeil		James Levine,
The Metropolitan Opera
(Recorded live on 25 September)		DVD: Met Opera
Cat: 811357012185
1986 Plácido Domingo,
Katia Ricciarelli,
Justino Díaz		 Lorin Maazel,
La Scala orchestra and chorus
(Othello, film directed by Franco Zeffirelli.[3])		 DVD: MGM
Cat: 0 27616 88420 6
1987 Plácido Domingo,
Anna Tomowa-Sintow,
Renato Bruson		 Zubin Mehta, Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
(Recorded live in May 1987)		 CD: Orfeo
Cat: C698072I
1991Luciano Pavarotti,
Kiri Te Kanawa,
Leo Nucci		Sir Georg Solti,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
(Recorded live in April 1991)		CD: Decca (London)
Cat: 433 669-2
1992Plácido Domingo,
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa,
Sergei Leiferkus		Georg Solti,
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus and Orchestra		DVD:Kultur Video
Cat: 0 32031 14929 8
1994Plácido Domingo,
Cheryl Studer,
Sergei Leiferkus		Myung-whun Chung,
Opéra Bastille, Paris		CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 439 805-2
1995Plácido Domingo,
Renée Fleming,
James Morris		James Levine,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus		DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 00440 073 0929
2001Plácido Domingo,
Barbara Frittoli,
Leo Nucci		Riccardo Muti,
La Scala orchestra and chorus		DVD: TDK
Cat: 8 2412100019 6
2008Aleksandrs Antonenko,
Marina Poplavskaya,
Carlos Álvarez		Riccardo Muti,
Vienna Philharmonic,
Salzburg Festival 2008		Blu-ray: Naxos
Cat: 701504
2013 Aleksandrs Antoņenko,
Krassimira Stoyanova,
Carlo Guelfi		 Riccardo Muti,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
(Recorded live in April 2011)		 CD: CSO Resound
Cat: CSOR 901 1301
2015 Aleksandrs Antoņenko,
Sonya Yoncheva,
Željko Lučić		 Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
Metropolitan Opera
(Recorded live 17 October)[4]		Streaming video in HD: Met Opera on Demand[5]
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		 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.

References
  1. 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
  2. Recordings on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  3. In the film, some of the music was omitted, but the soundtrack album of the film, released on EMI, features the complete opera.
  4. CID: 356065, Met Opera Archive.
  5. Otello (2015) at Met Opera on Demand.
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