Muted reviews for Jonas Kaufmann’s Munich Otello

Muted reviews for Jonas Kaufmann’s Munich Otello

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norman lebrecht

November 26, 2018

Although first-nighters went predictably wild, most newspaper critics dissented from Kaufmann’s latest depiction of the Moor as a dysfunctional man with a cipher wife (Anja Harteros).

Frei in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung writes that the outstanding strengths of the production were Gerald Finley as Iago and Kirill Petrenko in the pit.

Read here.

photo: Hosl 

See for yourselves. You can watch a live performance here on December 2 at 7pm

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