Otello

Synopsis: Verdi’s opera sung in German in a staging by Otto Schenk. Wolfgang Windgassen is Otello and Norman Mittelmann is Iago. The South German Radio Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna Opera are conducted by Argeo Quadri.
Language: German (Standard)
Country: Germany
Medium: Television
Transmission details: 1965
Duration: 134 mins

Notes: The opera was first staged in 1966. Released on VHS in 2000 and on DVD 2005.
General: According to the video distributor Arthaus Musik, ‘the producers in Vienna did not use playback but recorded each scene live. As the television studios were too small to accommodate a full-size opera orchestra, the musicians and conductor were situated in an acoustically appropriate but geographically separate hall, linked to the film studio only by cables and monitors. The scenes were recorded live and as editing technology as we know it today did not exist, so the work involved filming lengthy passages and repeating them as necessary’.

Name: ORF
Email: kundendienst@orf.at
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Phone: +43 (01) 87878-0
Address: Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF)
Würzburggasse 30
Vienna
A-1136
Austria

Name: Arthaus Musik
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Phone: 017 37 64 56 00
Fax: 017 37 64 40 65
Address: c/o Select Music and Video Dist Ltd
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Surrey
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