2010 edition
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“Vickers sings gloriously in the title-role, a heroic tenor who sings cleanly and accurately and with great passion, totally unstrained. Though Mirella Freni's soprano might seem a little lightweight for Desdemona, it is sweetly beautiful...Glossop [is] at his peak as the most sinister Iago”
Jon Vickers (Otello),
Mirella Freni (Desdemona),
Peter Glossop (Iago),
José van Dam & Stefania Malagú (Emilia),
Aldo Bottion (Cassio),
José van Dam (Lodovico),
Michel Sénéchal (Rodrigo),
Mario Macchi (Montano/Un Araldo)
Berliner Philharmoniker,
Herbert von Karajan