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Article: Othello. (G.B. Pergolesi Theater, Jesi, Italy)
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- Dance Magazine
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- January 1, 1995
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Perched on a hilltop in the province of Ancona, not far from the Adriatic Sea, Jesi is a remarkable ancient town. Two historical figures of renown were born here: the eighteenth-century musician Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Frederick II of Swabia, who became king of Naples and Sicily, king of the Germans, and head of the Holy Roman Empire in the thirteenth century.
The city theater hosts a brief but legitimate opera and ballet season, featuring only new productions and premieres. The 1994 season closed with the first performance of Othello, a ballet of great dramatic power by Fabrizio Monteverde inspired by Shakespeare's tragedy.
With this Othello, ...