Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello will inaugurate the 2024-2025 Opera and Ballet Season of the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice in Venice. It will be staged in a new production made special by the eagerly awaited musical interpretation of Myung-Whun Chung, in continuity with the various Verdi titles that have inaugurated previous seasons under his direction. The staging, designed by director Fabio Ceresa with sets by Massimo Checchetto, costumes by Claudia Pernigotti, light design by Fabio Barettin and choreographic movements by Mattia Agatiello, was created with the aim of becoming the heritage of the theatre and its already rich repertoire. And if Verdi is undoubtedly the fil rouge that links the most recent season openings at La Fenice, so too are the numerous, very interesting debuts to his score: suffice it to recall that it was Chung’s ‘first time’ conducting Macbeth (2018) and that it will also be a ‘first time’ for tenor Francesco Meli this year in the role of Otello, just a few years after his debut as Manrico in Il Trovatore (2011) and his Italian debut in the role of Radames in Aida (2019). Next to him, two main performers of the highest prestige: soprano Karah Son in the role of Desdemona and baritone Luca Micheletti in that of Jago.
