This coming Saturday, one day before la Scala opens their season with Don Carlo conducted by Daniele Gatti, Otello opens Teatro dell'Opera di Roma under Riccardo Muti's merciless baton: in the Roma cast, Marina Poplavskaya (Desdemona) and Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Giovanni Meoni (Jago).
Here, in the photos by the great Corrado Maria Falsini, courtesy of Opera di Roma, images from the Stephen Landgridge Salzburg/Rome co-production that debuted in Salzburg this past August.