Beschrijving

Verdi Otello

Antonio Pappano

Jonas Kaufmann, Federica Lombardi, Carlos Alvarez

Orchestra e coro dell’accademia Nazionale di santa cecilia

Sony 3CD 707932

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[Kaufmann] alternates between a taut, intense tone of anger and certainty and a less tightly focused, more burnished voice full of doubt..[Lombardi’s] light and fresh-sounding soprano plays up the young bride’s innocence beautifully…[Iago] sounds properly dangerous as sung by Carlos Álvarez…Pappano’s pacing wrings all the drama out of the music…This Otello may be Kaufmann’s showcase, but it’s Pappano who really makes it sing.