OTELLO Domingo Te Kanawa Leiferkus Solti Royal Opera House

OTELLO Royal Opera House The Prince and Princess of Wales (Princess Diana) attended this performance by Otello to celebrate Sir Georg Solti s 80th birthday in what turned out to be his last official public appearance. And as some may know, Sir Georg Solti and Princess Diana died in the same week a few years seemed to come together for this excellent interpretation of Shakespeare s masterpiece in Covent Garden in 1992: Plácido Domingo, possibly the best leading role performer during the last quarter of the last century; Give me Kiri Te Kanawa in her best radiant moment as Desdemona; Sir Georg Solti at his deepest point in the moat; and one of the most atmospheric productions by Elijah Moshinsky Otello Plácido Domingo Desdemona Kiri Te Kanawa Iago Sergei Leiferkus Cassio Robin Leggate Roderigo Ramon Remedios Lodovico Mark Beesley Montano Roderick Earle Herald Christopher Lackner Emilia Claire Powell