Kaufmann and Pappano, Othello a beautiful monster

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 15 - "Othello is a beautiful monster who incites fear and respect: we need a balance between the singers who know how to convey the dramaturgical power and we with this cast have had a precious gift". Jonas Kaufmann, worldwide lyric standard, and Maestro Antonio Pappano summarize the complexity of Verdi's masterpiece recorded with the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia on Sony Classic CD. The German tenor and the Anglo-Italian director spoke in webinar with a hundred foreign Italian journalists from the recording that last summer engaged them in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome with other singing stars such as the soprano Federica Lombardi (Desdemona) and the baritone Carlo Alvarez (Jago).
    Kaufmann and Pappano, protagonists in 2017 of an extraordinary success Othello staged at the Royal Opera House in London, faced the work in a very particular context. "In the studio we do not proceed from start to finish - the tenor said - but we skip from one piece to another, according to the needs. It is a difficult job of preparation.
   Tony has helped us a lot to reach the fair emotional level. Every test I had with him has always been a huge energy charge. "
    Othello always creates a lot of fear, Kaufmann says referring to the warrior who wins for Venice but who is also "a symbol, a foreigner, regardless of the color of the skin and the religion. The death of the woman he loves is also his".
    "Jonas was the starting point of the project - underlines Pappano -. He was very helpful in communicating with the orchestra, an approach possible only with him. Respect for the dynamics is difficult to achieve. Cantarepiano is a very special thing. the paint to really get to the essentials. We have to overcome fear to challenge masterpieces. " (HANDLE).