In compliance with the Prime Ministerial Decree of 24 October 2020, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna informs that all events open to the public are suspended until 24 November 2020. Therefore, the show “Bologna, history of a city from the Etruscans to today” by and with Giorgio Comaschi, scheduled in Sala Bibiena from 29 to 31 October, the meeting with Gabriele Lavia on 2 November entitled “Otello / Tradimenti” and the meeting with Debora Villa on 17 November entitled “The fables and the opera” scheduled in Foyer Rossini for the review “Parliamo d’Opera”, the new production of Verdi’s Otello directed by Gabriele Lavia and conducted by Asher Fisch, scheduled at PalaDozza from 11 to 18 November, and the symphonic concert on 22 November at PalaDozza, under the direction of Pinchas Steinberg and pianist Federico Colli, will be rescheduled to a later date.

Otello, a lyrical drama in four acts staged for the first time in Milan on February 5, 1887, was born from the maturity of Verdi’s immeasurable talent, a very skilful perveyor of scenic effects and a profound reader of the human soul. Indeed, Verdi’s theater puts man at the center of his universe; man, like Otello, who lives his short and precarious existence blinded by passions, torn between two absolute abstractions: the most flawless and virtuous, Desdemona, and the intelligent, cynical and evil incarnate, Jago.

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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is the opera composer to whom the Italian identity is most linked, because during his long career he has sung of the most intimate values and feelings of a fragmented country that with its music and lyrics has learned to speak Italian.

Among the favorite themes of the Busseto master also the various contradictions inherent in the parent-child relationship, interpreted by masterpieces such as Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Luisa Miller.

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