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Which Shakespeare play inspired Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Otello?
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Otello
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi was known for operas such as Rigoletto (1851).
Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Otello was inspired by the play Othello by William Shakespeare.1
Verdi, who held Shakespeare in high regard as the "great searcher of the human heart," collaborated with the poet and composer Arrigo Boito to adapt the tragedy for the operatic stage. The work premiered at La Scala in 1887 and is widely considered one of the greatest operas based on Shakespearean themes.123