Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00

Special offer. Verdi: Otello

Charles Craig (Otello), Rosalind Plowright (Desdemona), Neil Howlett (Iago), Shelagh Squires (Emilia), Bonaventura Bottone (Cassio), Stuart Kale (Roderigo), Sean Rea (Lodovico), Malcolm Rivers (Montano), Gordon Traynor (Herald)

English National Opera, Mark Elder

Verdi: Otello
The performance itself is most enjoyable, with dramatic tension building up compellingly. Charles Craig's Otello is most moving, the character's inner pain brought out vividly...Plowright makes...

Penguin Guide, 2010 edition2 out of 4 stars/3 out of 4 stars

More reviews

Special offer. Verdi: Otello

Charles Craig (Otello), Rosalind Plowright (Desdemona), Neil Howlett (Iago), Shelagh Squires (Emilia), Bonaventura Bottone (Cassio), Stuart Kale (Roderigo), Sean Rea (Lodovico), Malcolm Rivers (Montano), Gordon Traynor (Herald)

English National Opera, Mark Elder

Purchase product

2 CDs

Original price $25.00 Reduced price $21.25

2 available: usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Summer Opera - up to 40% off selected titles

Special offer ends: 12/08/2026

Download

From$20.00

Download

Audio formats guide

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$25.75

320 kbps, MP3

$20.00

This release includes a digital booklet

Stream now lossless, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit
Free 30 day trial
The performance itself is most enjoyable, with dramatic tension building up compellingly. Charles Craig's Otello is most moving, the character's inner pain brought out vividly...Plowright makes...

Penguin Guide, 2010 edition2 out of 4 stars/3 out of 4 stars

More reviews

About

Contents and tracklist

Verdi: Otello (sung in English)
Work length2:17:43
Act I Scene 1: See, the sail there! (Chorus, Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo)
Track length4:22
Act I Scene 1: Oh rejoice now! (Otello, Chorus)
Track length2:17
Act I Scene 1: Roderigo, speak up (Iago, Roderigo)
Track length2:44
Act I Scene 1: Flame of rejoicing! (Chorus)
Track length2:22
Act I Scene 1: Roderigo, drink up! (Iago, Cassio, Chorus)
Track length1:36
Act I Scene 1: Brindisi: Good comrades, brave and true (Iago, Cassio, Chorus, Roderigo)
Track length3:46
Act I Scene 1: Captain Cassio, the guard awaits your orders (Montano, Cassio, Iago, Chorus)
Track length1:15
Act I Scene 2: Your swords cast before me! (Otello, Iago, Cassio, Montano)
Track length3:07
Act I Scene 3: Now in the silent darkness (Otello, Desdemona)
Track length2:29
Act I Scene 3: Once when you told me of your life in exile (Desdemona, Otello)
Track length7:42
Act II Scene 1: Don't give up hope, but trust in me (Iago, Cassio)
Track length2:41
Act II Scene 2: Take it; take the path to your ruin (Iago)
Track length0:31
Act II Scene 2: Yes, I believe in a God who has created me (Iago)
Track length4:24
Act II Scene 2: There she is … Cassio … your chance … (Iago)
Track length1:23
Act II Scene 3: How distressing … (Iago, Otello)
Track length2:52
Act II Scene 3: Beware, O my lord, beware of jealousy (Iago, Otello)
Track length2:17
Act II Scene 3: At your glances, flame in our hearts (Chorus, Desdemona, Otello, Iago)
Track length4:01
Act II Scene 4: I come from someone who has felt your anger (Desdemona, Otello)
Track length2:21
Act II Scene 4: Grant me, oh grant me sweet words of pardon (Desdemona, Otello, Iago, Emilia)
Track length2:55
Act II Scene 5: Desdemona guilty! (Otello, Iago)
Track length1:40
Act II Scene 5: Now and forever farewell (Otello, Iago)
Track length2:10
Act II Scene 5: By all creation! Can I believe in Desdemona? (Otello, Iago)
Track length1:24
Act II Scene 5: Darkness had fallen, Cassio was sleeping … (Iago, Otello)
Track length4:36
Act II Scene 5: See me swear, you heavens above me! (Otello, Iago)
Track length3:03
Act III Scene 1: I bring word that the watchman at the harbour (Herald, Otello, Iago)
Track length2:55
Act III Scene 2: God give you joy, Otello (Desdemona, Otello)
Track length3:12
Act III Scene 2: You are trying to tease me (Desdemona, Otello)
Track length6:59
Act III Scene 3: God! Had it pleased you to try me with affliction (Otello ) - Act III Scene 4: Ah! Damned for ever! (Otello, Iago)
Track length4:22
Act III Scene 5: Come now; the hall's deserted (Iago, Cassio, Otello)
Track length3:52
Act III Scene 5: This is a cobweb, men are flies (Iago, Cassio)
Track length1:56
Act III Scene 6: How shall I take her life? (Otello, Iago, Chorus)
Track length1:14
Act III Scene 7: Hail him! All hail him! (Chorus, Lodovico, Otello, Desdemona, Emilia, Iago)
Track length3:42
Act III Scene 8: All hear me! The Doge … (Otello, Roderigo, Iago, Cassio, Lodovico)
Track length1:49
Act III Scene 8: I lie here! Yes: I lie in the dust here … (Desdemona, Emilia, Roderigo, Cassio, Lodovico, Chorus, Iago, Otello)
Track length3:40
Act III Scene 8: All in this day of glory rejoice (Iago, Chorus, Otello, Lodovico, Desdemona)
Track length1:56
Act III Scene 9: But who can flee himself! (Otello, Iago, Chorus)
Track length1:56
Act IV Scene 1: Did he seem calmer? (Desdemona, Emilia)
Track length4:55
Act IV Scene 1: The poor soul sat sighing beneath a willow … (Desdemona, Emilia)
Track length7:05
Act IV Scene 2: Ave Maria, mother of mercy (Desdemona)
Track length5:01
Act IV Scene 3: Who's there? … Otello? (Desdemona, Otello)
Track length6:23
Act IV Scene 3: Calm and cold as the tomb (Otello, Emilia, Desdemona)
Track length1:59
Act IV Scene 4: Who's shouting! Oh God! Ah no! (Emilia, Iago, Otello, Cassio, Montano, Lodovico)
Track length1:30
Act IV Scene 4: Do not fear me (Otello, Cassio, Chorus)
Track length5:19

Awards and reviews

2010 edition

The performance itself is most enjoyable, with dramatic tension building up compellingly. Charles Craig's Otello is most moving, the character's inner pain brought out vividly...Plowright makes a superb Desdemona, singing with rich dramatic weight but also with poise and purity.
2 out of 4 stars/3 out of 4 stars
View download progress

Download queue