Sherrill Milnes & Placido Domingo "Otello" G. Verdi - Chicago 1985 - full opera - opening night
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Otello: Placido Domingo
Desdemona: Margaret Price
Iago: Sherrill Milnes
Cassio: Robin Leggate
Cond. Bruno Bartoletti
Chicago 1985
opening night
interviste a Placido Domingo e Sherrill Milnes
Thank you for the video. I remember this broadcast. I found some information on the Lyric Opera's website. The performance was on Sept. 21, 1985. Cast:
Montano - Paul Kreider
Cassio - Barry McCauley
Iago - Sherrill Milnes
Rodrigo - Paul Hartfield
Otello - Plácido Domingo
Desdemona - Margaret Price
Emilia - Robynne Redmon
Herald - Stefan Szkafarowsky
Lodovico - Paul Plishka
Conductor - Bruno Bartoletti
Domingo only sang in the Sept. 21 cast, and immediately after the performance he hopped on a plane and flew to Mexico City, which had just been hit by a series of earthquakes.
Here is a link to LoC's page for the 1980-1989 archives:
www.lyricopera.org/shows/performance-library/1980-1990-seasons/
What a cast! M. Price, Mines, Domingo!
Grande Milnes
Domingo sounds great!!!
This was a great broadcast. I am very surprised to see this posted and to have the chance to hear it again. I first heard this in April of 1986 right after the Met broadcasts were over. I knew Redmon in school at U of Houston - a stern looking music librarian, heard here as Emilia. I wondered what had come over Domingo. He sang Otello in Houston in May 1989. i did not know the connection with the Mexico City quakes yet, but I almost went into shock with the intensity Domingo had brought to this whole performance, especially during the finale of Act Three. Milnes sounded the darkest I have ever heard him as Iago in this. I had never heard Domingo like this ever before or since. There was a Levine broadcast much earlier in the year, like in February or March. Levine was a litlte on the brutal side of things - I did not enjoy it - and Domingo had to resort to much shouting to be heard. There were times Levine was better conducting Otello than others and this had not been one of them, and neither is the RCA recording with Scotto, Domingo, Milnes. my favorite recording of Otello, an underrated one, became and for ever since the Solti which starred Carlo Cossutta, taking Domingo's place due to RCA's exclusive rights, but Cossutta is no less fine than Domingo was on the RCA set, and mujch preferable too to the Solt/CSO set, more pure in interpretation perhaps, more true to the Toscanini tradition, but less satisfying, even in Verdian ways, to the great and truly underrated VPO recording. Petr Dvorsky is the Cassio and Kurt Moll the Lodovico, vastly preferable to Plishka, as part of a thoroughly great supporting cast, and here I've said enough.
Je ne connaissais absolument pas cet enregistrement public, Domingo comme toujours exceptionnel en Otello, au sommet de son art vocal
Thank you for posting. It is unfortunately a half tone too high.