D’Othello à Otello : les avatars du Maure

This essay is the text of a talk given to opera buffs. It provides a study of the adaptations of Shakespeare’s play for the opera. It traces the history of the Shakespearian myth, it develops the dramatic failure (but the operatic success) of Rossini’s Otello, and devotes most of the analysis to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexis Tadié
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2006-04-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/2686