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Rossini’s “Otello,” Set in Postwar Italy, Opens LoftOpera’s 2017 Season

LoftOpera kicks off its 2017 season with this timely production at Flushing Avenue's LightSpace Studios.

By Emilie Ruscoe

Feb. 1, 2017 · 1 min read

Rossini’s “Otello,” Set in Postwar Italy, Opens LoftOpera’s 2017 Season
Soprano Cecilia Violetta López as Desdemona and tenor Bernard Holcomb start in LoftOpera’s spring 2017 production of Rossini’s “Otello.” Photo courtesy of LoftOpera.
Arts & Culture

Rossini’s “Otello,” Set in Postwar Italy, Opens LoftOpera’s 2017 Season

LoftOpera kicks off its 2017 season with this timely production at Flushing Avenue's LightSpace Studios.

· 1 min read
Rossini’s “Otello,” Set in Postwar Italy, Opens LoftOpera’s 2017 Season

A rarely performed Rossini opera that retells one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, produced by the ever inventive local company LoftOpera, opens next month at LightSpace Studios on Flushing Avenue.

“Otello,” an adaptation of the Bard’s jealousy-fueled masterpiece, will open on March…

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