Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
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Plácido Domingo as Otello
Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona
Justino Díaz as Iago
Petra Malakova as Emilia
Urbano Barberini as Cassio
Massimo Foschi as Lodovico
Sergio Nicolai as Roderigo
Remo Remotti as Brabantio
Antonio Pierfederici as Doge
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