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Title: Zeffirelli's Otello
Review: It certainly is not Verdi's.Franco Zeffirelli opened the new Metropolitan Opera House with his production of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. He was determined to use all the bells and whistles of which the new house was capable, and in doing so he upstaged the world premiere of the opera, to such an extent that the opera "failed" and has never recovered at the Met.All this is to say that he's done it again. Meat cleaver, as someone else has said, to Verdi's score and the libretto. Visuals may tell a story very well, but when the music which is presumably the raison d'etre of the film is sacrificed, something is clearly out of focus. Anyone looking for a film of Verdi's Otello will have to look elsewhere; this is Zeffirelli's Otello, first and last. A gigantic waste of visuals and a stellar cast. Pathetic.
