Verdi's Otello from San Fransisco Opera on web radio!

In Verdi's masterful adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, a great warrior discovers the one weapon against which he has no defense -- his own jealousy. San Francisco Opera's 2009 production of Otello is this week's Saturday at the Opera.

Johan Botha, the South African tenor praised by The New York Times for his "effortless power and clarion tone," makes his San Francisco debut in the title role. His voice, even in his facilely sung acuti, top notes, does not have the ringing exciting quality of a Franco Corelli or the range of colors of the palette of a true dramatic tenor.

Bulgarian soprano Zvetelina Vassileva brings tenderness and vocal brilliance to the role of Desdemona, the faithful wife who finds facts are no match for manufactured suspicion.

Music Director Nicola Luisotti, praised by London's Financial Times for conveying Verdi's "sweep, lyricism and subtle detail," conducts.

Here we can see the preview from San Francisco Opera:

Here Johan Botha tells to us about the Othello's psychology:

Also, we can listen Otello of San Fransisco Opera (recorded 21. Nov. 2009) by american radio station WQXR in internet:
Tomorrow 4. September 18.00 UTC+0

The alternative stream is here.