RUNNING TIME: 2:57
STARRING: Sonya Yoncheva, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Dimitri Pittas
DIRECTOR: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
PRODUCER(S): Bartlett Sher
WRITER(S): Giuseppe Verdi
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: The Met season opens with Verdi’s masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespeare’s play and matching it in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moor’s dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otello’s innocent wife and victim; and baritone Željko Lucic plays the evil Iago, who masterminds Otello’s demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.