The Tel Aviv Opera House. (credit: Courtesy) Iago means to poison Otello’s mind by having him believe his wife is having an affair with Cassio (Alexei Dolgov). Cassio is two things Otello is not ...

The Sunday evening premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello at the Israeli Opera Tel Aviv concluded with standing ovations. The audience responded enthusiastically to tenor Kristian Benedikt’s ...

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