Otello

[ Italian aw-tel-law ]

noun
  1. an opera (1887) with music by Giuseppe Verdi and a libretto by Arrigo Boito based on Shakespeare's Othello.

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How to use Otello in a sentence

  • The next day, when Mammy Otello came, she seemed rather inclined to scold Bill for running away.

    Sunshine Bill | W H G Kingston
  • Mammy Otello gave Bill an affectionate embrace, as he wished her good-bye, an honour she did not bestow on the rest of the party.

    Sunshine Bill | W H G Kingston
  • Verdi chose him to sing in Otello against the advice of several friends, saying: "He has more brain than any five singers I know."

  • Was the musical taste in this country such, for instance, fifty years ago, that opera-frequenters would have relished even Otello?

    Verdi: Man and Musician | Frederick James Crowest
  • Otello, a lyric drama in four acts, with a book by Arrigo Boito, proved the second of the composer's matured period works.

    Verdi: Man and Musician | Frederick James Crowest