Verdi: Otello
Carlos Cossutta (Otello), Margaret Price (Desdemona), Gabriel Bacquier (Iago), Peter Dvorsky (Cassio), Kurt Equiluz (Rodrigo), Kurt Moll (Lodovico), Stafford Dean (Montano), Jane Berbié (Emilia), Hans Helm (Un Araldo)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Sir Georg Solti
Under Solti's baton, this Otello is too fast and furious but Price is one of the finest Desdemonas on CD.
Verdi: Otello
Carlos Cossutta (Otello), Margaret Price (Desdemona), Gabriel Bacquier (Iago), Peter Dvorsky (Cassio), Kurt Equiluz (Rodrigo), Kurt Moll (Lodovico), Stafford Dean (Montano), Jane Berbié (Emilia), Hans Helm (Un Araldo)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Sir Georg Solti
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Under Solti's baton, this Otello is too fast and furious but Price is one of the finest Desdemonas on CD.
About
Studio recording, 1977
Contents and tracklist
- Stafford Dean (bass), Peter Dvorsky (tenor), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Carlo Cossutta (tenor), Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano), Hans Helm (baritone), Kurt Moll (bass)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Sängerknaben
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1977-09
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Awards and reviews
June 2012
Under Solti's baton, this Otello is too fast and furious but Price is one of the finest Desdemonas on CD.
September 1978
It has [Solti's] particular flair for seizing upon the tensions of each scene and emphasizing them...Cossutta is a no-nonsense Otello. He sings the role as well if not better than anyone since del Monaco...[Price] is even more precise and sensitive in her singing...what a joy to hear the music done with such consistently clear, fresh and full tone....[Bacquier's] touch with the text—examples proliferate— constantly has one marvelling again at the wonderful marriage of Boito's words and Verdi's music.
