Ada, Otello, and Falstaff are a tremendous art advance upon anything that Verdi had accomplished before.
I liked her better in Otello than in Barbiere, in which she represented the consummate coquette, instead of the lively witty girl.
Even taking into account "Otello," the general form of the music in "Falstaff" is an innovation for Verdi.
Papa has a splendid voice, almost like Tamagno's in the gramophone, when he sings the 'Addio' from 'Otello.'
Sigismondi began his lecture on the enormities of Rossini as displayed in Otello by reading the list of the instruments employed.
