Otello

Synopsis
Verdi’s Otello, conducted by Fritz Busch with Ramon Vinay as Othello and Licia Albanese as Desdemona. Directed for stage by Herbert Graf and for television by Burke Crotty, this was the first live transmission of an entire opera from the stage of the old Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
Language
Italian (Standard)
Country
United States
Medium
Television
Availability
No archive copy found (2006).
Subjects
Drama; Music
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Director
Burke Crotty; Herbert Graf
Writer
Arrigo Boito
Music
Giuseppe Verdi
Production Design
Donald Oenslager
Costume
Virgina Sorrentino
Cast
Clifford Harvuot 
John Garris 
Leonard Warren 
Licia Albanese 
Martha Lipton 
Nicola Moscona 
Phillip Kinsman 
Ramon Vinay 
Thomas Hayward 

Production Company

Name

ABC

Sponsor

Name

Texaco

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