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Verdi: Otello / Act 4 - Ave Maria, piena di grazia

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  1. DanBC
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    Tagging and titling this is a nightmare. Sorry. The composer is Guiseppe Verdi. The opera is Otello, (which is based on Shakespeare's Othello). The orchestra is Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra...

    Tagging and titling this is a nightmare. Sorry.

    The composer is Guiseppe Verdi.
    The opera is Otello, (which is based on Shakespeare's Othello).
    The orchestra is Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra Bastille.
    The Conductor is Myung-Whun Chung
    The singer in the video I'm linking is Cheryl Studer.

    Here's the Deutsch Grammophon page for the recording: https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/verdi-otello-domingo-studer-leiferkus-chung-10134

    I'm posting this because it's short and accessible and glorious. Also, it has an example of something I particularly like which is a build up of tension for the first 55 seconds, and then at 0:56 a lift. Flawless.

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