Article: I'Opera de Quebec: Otello.

Everything was in place to make a success of Verdi's masterpiece, Otello, at L'Opera de Quebec (Oct. 20-27): a renovated and acoustically improved Salle Louis-Frechette; a uniformly accomplished, largely Canadian cast; a conductor in John Keenan who could make the Quebec Symphony Orchestra sound better than ever at the opera; and the Albertan director, Brian Deederick, here working on his fifth production for OdeQ.

In this opera, with its stormy opening and talk of naval victory, the violence of the subject matter grip you from the outset. Canadian tenor John Mac Master inspired respect for the glorious Otello through his bearing and his powerful voice. Despite ...

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