Rossini: Otello Overture (with Score)

[@loveclassicalmusicalot]

The opening sounds like A Turk In Italy.

[@simonkawasaki4229]

The amount of disrespect being paid to these great Italian opera overtures you're uploading is shocking... yes, this music is ill-suited for something like Othello, but at the time, it was strange and unusual to greet paying Italian operatic audiences with dramatic laments. Rossini found that the charisma of a comic operatic overture could be substituted for a colorful historical drama, and whether that decision is a GOOD one or not is up for debate, but I really don't have THAT big of an issue with it, especially when I disconnect the styles and conventions of Italian and German/French opera, something misinformed and biased listeners tend to do.

[@gunnarhagglund]

First! 19 seconds after you posted.

[@kronkepus3671]

Why does every single piece Rossini wrote sound the same? The same, generic and stuffy hyper-tonal comic opera music? And how did he have the balls to go after and despise great composers such as R. Wagner? One word: jealousy.

[@metodoinstinto]

I love Rossini, but I'll admit I wasn't prepared for this lousy crappy run-of-the-mill generic shameful ouverture. Everything he wrote here is the same tired old crap he puts in all his works. He has great operas, yes, but this overture is just awful.

[@simonkawasaki4229]

You don't know what you're saying. He respected Wagner and the two had a very amicable meeting in Paris 1860. Almost everything Rossini "said" about Wagner's operas was stirred up by the press.