Otello is not evil, nor is he clinically ill. He is a man living in a system that offers him no support – an outsider who has never learned to cope with his emotions. His tragedy is this: he loves – but he does not trust.
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Give me a kiss, my Love!
British director Graham Vick based his interpretation on two theses: First, Otello should not necessarily be sung by a black-painted white tenor and second, that one should have zero compassion for him. Thus, in this staging, all singers are white, and Otello is portrayed as a cold-blooded killer, whose killing of Desdemona was nothing more than as a long-term planned honour murder.
Singers, Staging, Orchestra 