Reticence, a rhetorical strategy in Othelto/Otello: Shakespeare, Verdi-Boito, Zeffirelli.

Italica | June 22, 2006| | Copyright

Since the seventeenth century, Shakespeare's plays have fascinated opera composers (close to 200 operas were inspired by them). Verdi s special fondness for "il Bardo" as he often called him, is well known. He considered him a kindred spirit. Verdi, too, in fact, wanted to represent on stage the drama of human passions: simply, directly, and effectively. Fidelity to the drama was what he hoped to achieve in all his operas--drama, therefore, not only in a technical sense, that is, as a play to be staged, but drama as human struggle, as the stage of the conflict of human ...

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