Productions

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito after William Shakespeare’s eponymous play
Music Director and Conductor Arvo Volmer
Stage Director Vincent Boussard (France)
Conductor Kaspar Mänd
Set and Costume Designers Vincent Boussard, Domenico Franchi (Italy)
Video Designer Nicolas Hurtevent (France)
Lighting Designer Rasmus Rembel
Chief Chorus Master Heli Jürgenson
Assistant of the Music Director Kaur Pennert
Cast Dimitris Paksoglou or Alessandro Fantoni, Dragudin Matic or Badral Chuluumbatar, Kadri Raalik / Elena Brazhnyk or Arete Kerge, Heldur Harry Põlda or Mart Madiste, Aule Urb or Helen Lokuta, Reigo Tamm or Rafael Dicenta, Raiko Raalik or Priit Volmer, Revere Taylor or Dragos Andrei Lionel, Jakob Tomson or Rein Saar

Estonian National Opera celebrates its 120th birthday by bringing to the stage one of opera history’s most powerful tragedies, "Othello". Shakespeare’s timeless story finds new life in Verdi’s music, where every note resonates with heartbreak and fateful beauty. In the hands of acclaimed French opera director Vincent Boussard, the production delves into the deepest recesses of the human psyche, seeking answers to questions that rise above mere jealousy and the thirst for revenge.

Vincent Boussard: "More than just a play about jealousy or the question of race, Verdi and Boito’s "Othello" depicts the fall of a world. Governed by Truth as its sacred bond and divine authority as the guarantee of an immutable and just order, this world is certain of its legitimacy and eternal existence. Yet, at the height of its power, it will collapse like a house of cards under the emergence of the "alternative fact," a formidable weapon in the hands of those who know how to inject the poison of fake news into the flaws that threaten the inattentive and archaic being: vanity, blindness, and jealousy. Otello dies from opening his eyes too late."

World premiere on February 3rd, 1887 in Teatro alla Scala.