Giuseppe Verdi: OTELLO, opera

SNG MARIBOR OPERA AND BALLET
Arrigo Boito, librettist
GUY MONTAVON, director
VILLE MATVEJEFF, conductor

8. September 2025
8.00 pm
Cankarjev dom
19 €, 29 €, 39 €, 49 €, 59 €, 69 €

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During presale period, which for this event lasts until 23 February 2025, members of Ljubljana Festival Club are entitled to a 20% discount and to 10% discount in regular sale on ticket purchase. you can join the Club here.

This February, after an absence of almost three decades, Verdi’s operatic retelling of the tragedy of the Moor of Venice, returned to the stage of the Opera and Ballet of the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor, in a production directed by acclaimed Swiss director Guy Montavon, who is also the general secretary of the European Theatre Directors Association. His directorial vision throws an entirely new light on the infamous Shakespearean tragedy, full of love intrigues, jealousy, betrayal and murder, reworked in the mid-nineteenth century by the librettist Arrigo Boito, a skilled adapter of works from the European canon. One of his final operatic creations, Otello bears Verdi’s unmistakable signature, recognisable in the characteristic fullness of the orchestra’s sound and the virtuosity of the singers. At the same time, however, some elements of the work nod to the compositional techniques of Richard Wagner, who was regarded as one of his artistic rivals. The Maribor Opera has entrusted the score to the Finnish conductor, pianist and composer Ville Matvejeff, whom Slovene audiences may already have encountered as the guest conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, while in the wider region he is known above all as the popular principal conductor and music adviser of the Ivan Zajc Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka.

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