Giuseppe Verdi: Otello

The Milan Otello opens the Scala season and did so in 2001 on 7 December, but at the same time it was farewell production before the start of the three-year renovation of the house and not least a brilliant end to the Verdi Year. The audience as well as the press cheered Barbara Frittoli as a youthfully charming Desdemona, Leo Nucci as cleverly self-controlled Iago and Placido Domingo as a thrilling Otello, both from the dramatic and the singing point of view. Domingo had been the leading Moro di Venezi for a quarter of a century, and in Milan he said farewell to this role - "in triumph", according to 'The Herald Tribune".