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The Met: Live in HDHong Kong 2015-2016 Season

OTELLO An opera by Giuseppe Verdi

The Foundation for the Arts and Music in Asia is proud to present

a production of the Metropolitan Opera of New York

OtelloAn opera by Verdi

Ticket Price: $210 - Adult

$180 - Full time student / senior citizen

Expected running time: 3 hrs 30 mins

Sung in Italian with English and Chinese subtitles

Otello

Desdemona

Iago

Aleksandrs Antonenko

Sonya Yoncheva

Zeljko Lucic

AMC Pacific Place

UA Cityplaza

Bethanie

Bethanie

The Grand@Elements

31 January 3:40PM

20 February 4:30PM

13 March 5:30PM

24 April 5:30PM

8 May 7:50PM

Giuseppe Verdi's

Otello

One of Verdi's most famous masterpieces has come back with a whole new production by Tony Award-winning director

Bartlett Sher.

Based on Shakespeare's tragic drama of jealousy and deceit, Verdi composed a masterpiece that examines the force and

the frailty of love and the evil that can prey on human weakness. In this new production, Aleksandrs Antonenko sings the

title role. Despite of his glory on battlefield, Otello is manipulated by his own ensign Iago into suspecting his saintly wife's

faithfulness. He is driven by jealousy, the flaw in his character and ultimately led to his own downfall.

Alongside Aleksandrs Antonenko is the fast-rising soprano Sonya Yoncheva. This is the first time she sings the role of

Desdemona and she delivers a luminous performance that won rave reviews. Zeljko Lucic sings the villainous Iago, who is a

master manipulator out for vengeance. He steals the show by his chilling and convincing interpretation of the villain.

Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts Verdi's beautiful score and gives a miraculous performance. Acclaimed scenic designer Es

Devlin created, in her Met deput, a "glass palace" to trap the doomed hero. Costume is designed by six-time Tony Award

winner Catherine Zuber while the lighting is designed by two-time Tony winner Donald Holder.

Come to the local cinemas to watch the Met's new production of Verdi's passionate and masterful rendering of one of

Shakespeare's greatest plays.

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Background

The Met: Live in HDHong Kong 2015-2016 Season

OTELLO An opera by Giuseppe Verdi

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Yonghoon Lee as Manrico

"An admirably plausible romantic figure onstage, Lee varied dynamics,

and the softer accents of "Ah si, ben mio" and the final duet with

Azucena suited him well." - David Shengold, Opera News

"winning, passionate and convincingly youthful"

- Michael Tanner, The Spectator

The Cast

The Met: Live in HDHong Kong 2014-2015 Season

Ms Flora Wong, Tel: 852-2579 5533 flora.wong@fama.org.hk

OTELLO An opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Aleksandrs Antonenko as Otello

"His trumpetlike highs are hard, bright, and implacable"

- Justin Davidson, Vulture

"He brings mellow colors and penetrating tone to his singing"

- Anthony Tommasini, New York Times

Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona

"Her luscious sound has just enough of an earthy tinge

and texture to balance the shimmer of her singing."

- Anthony Tommasini, New York Times

"Yoncheva is fresh, free and rich, dramatic in her

increasingly hard-to-watch standoffs with Otello and

achingly poignant in the long final bedroom scene"

- Anne Midgette, Washington Post

Zeljko Lucic as Iago

"Lucic is superb as Iago, a chilling and malevolent portrait of evil

personified"

- Wilborn Hampton, Huffington Post

"Zeljko Lucic relished the villain's words and often delivered them

in a spine-chilling sotto voce while demonstrating ample power in

big moments."

- George Loomis, Financial Times