Otello

Giuseppe Verdi

OTELLO Dramma lirico in quattro atti Libretto di Arrigo Boito, tratto dal dramma „Othello, the Moor of Venice“ di William Shakespeare In Italian Revised New Edition edited by Gábor Kerényi newly engraved & corrected

CAST

Otello, moro, generale dell’Armata Veneta (Tenore) • Jago, alfiere (Baritono) • Cassio, capo di squadra (Tenore) • Roderigo, gentiluomo veneziano (Tenore)• Ludovico, ambasciatore della Repubblica Veneta (Basso)• Montano, predecessore d’Otello nel governo dell’isola di Cipro (Basso)• Un Araldo (Basso)• Desdemona, moglie d’Otello (Soprano)• Emilia, moglie di Jago (Mezzosoprano)• Coro: soldati e marinai della Repubblica Veneta, gentildonne e gentiluomini Veneziani, popolani Ciprioti d’ambo i sessi, uomini d’arme Greci, Dalmati, Albanesi, fanciulli dell’isola, un taverniere, quattro servi di taverna, bassa ciurma

INSTRUMENTATION

3 flauti (3. anche ottavino) / 2 oboi, corno inglese / 2 clarinetti in la, si b , do, clarinetto basso in si b / 4 fagotti• 4 corni / 2 cornette / 2 trombe / 3 tromboni / trombone basso• timpani• piatti, tamtam, gran cassa I, II• 2 arpe• archi

sul palco cornamusa (oppure 2 oboi)• mandolini (oppure 2 arpe), chitarre (oppure 2 arpe)• organo• lampi, fulmini, tuono, tamburelli (per i ballabili)

sul palco (interno) 6 trombe in do / 4 tromboni• colpo di cannone

SETTING

Una città di mare nell’isola di Cipro - fine del XV secolo

PREMIERE

5 febbraio 1887, Teatro alla Scala, Milano

SPECIAL FEATURES

The newly-set music text of the full score, orchestral parts and vocal score is reproduced unaltered based on the first printed editions from the original publisher Ricordi, but with the necessary corrections and adjustments, based on a critical analysis and comparison with other sources – listed in the correction report.

Most of the differences between the full score and vocal score published by Ricordi are in the articulation and phrasing in the vocal parts. Only by making corrections in the new edition do the different music texts now match each other. The libretto was used as a further source in clarifying textual differences between the full score and the vocal score.

This edition contains both the opera originally composed for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the ballet composed for the Paris performance in 1894, the “Ballabili”.

The sequence of the music text of the new edition corresponds with the sequence in the Ricordi score. Similarly, the rehearsal numbers have been included in the new edition in the full score, orchestral parts and vocal score. It is also worth mentioning that in the 2 nd and 3 rd acts of the sources used by Ricordi, the rehearsal letters after Z continued again with letter A, whilst the new edition adopted a clearer differentiation from this point onwards – following the example of the 1 st and 4 th acts of the original editions – continuing with AA, BB, CC etc.

All materials in the new edition also contain bar numbers.

SOURCES

Full score / later edition First printed edition of the full score, G. Ricordi & Co., Milano Later edition: G. Ricordi & C. Editori, Milano, Copyright MCMXIII, Ristampa 1974, pl. no. 155

Vocal score / later edition First printed edition of the vocal score, G. Ricordi & Co., Milano Later edition: ed.: Mario Parenti, Universal Music MGB Publications S.r.l., © 2006, pl. no. 52105; ISMN 979-0-040-52105-4

Libretto / edition Schott Music International, © 2001, ISBN 3-254-08024-6

MATERIALS – AVAILABLE ON HIRE

Full score Foreword (Ger., Eng.), article on the edition (Ger., Eng.)

Critical Report Report on the sources, variant readings 2016

Vocal score / Chorus score Foreword (Ger., Eng.), article on the edition (Ger., Eng.)

Performance material LVGH-1987 Full score, vocal score, chorus score, orchestral parts: 231x303 mm / duplicates, transposed parts.

Ballet in the French version

VERSIONS

There is only one version of “Otello”. Verdi just added an incidental ballet for the Paris premiere on 12 October 1894 – as was obligatory for Paris – a piece which comes at the beginning of the final scene of the 3 rd act.