Michael Tanner

Make do and mend

Otello <br /> Welsh National Opera, Cardiff La fanciulla del West<br /> Royal Opera House

issue 27 September 2008

Otello
Welsh National Opera, Cardiff

La fanciulla del West
Royal Opera House

Otello, for me the most perfect though not the greatest of Verdi’s operas, continues Welsh National Opera’s survey of his late works, in a new production by Paul Curran.

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