The Met season opens with Verdis masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespeares play and matching it in tragic intensity. Director Bartlett Sher probes the Moors dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast: tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko plays the doomed Otello; new soprano star Sonya Yoncheva sings Desdemona, Otellos innocent wife and victim; and baritone eljko Lucic plays the evil Iago, who masterminds Otellos demise. Dynamic maestro Yannick Nzet-Sguin conducts. Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English, German, Italian and Spanish