which is not a verdi opera based on a shakespeare play

Of course, Verdi's opera is not Shakespeare's play, any more than Shakespeare's play is Giraldi Cinthio's story. A substantial portion of his reputation is based on such clever and outrageous half-truths. He was promoting Wagner by putting down Verdi, and G. He is also at least partly irresponsible. Shaw on Verdi (1901), even at such length, is irresistible. With such a libretto, Verdi was quite at home: his success with it proves, not that he could occupy Shakespeare's plane, but that Shakespeare could on occasion occupy his, which is a very different matter. Othello's transports are conveyed by a magnificent but senseless music which rages from the Propontick to the Hellespont in an orgy of thundering sound and bounding rhythm and the plot is a pure farce plot: that is to say, it is supported on an artificially manufactured and desperately precarious trick which a chance word might upset at any moment.

Its characters are monsters: Desdemona is a prima donna, with handkerchief, confidante, and vocal solo, all complete and Iago, though slightly more anthropomorphic than the Count di Luna, is only so when he slips out of his stage villain's part. It is quite peculiar among his works in this aspect. The composition of Otello was a much less Shakespearean feat for the truth is that, instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Which is not a verdi opera based on a shakespeare play