Otello (1986 film) in "Opera News", the film's star, Plácido Domingo, expressed similar displeasure in the movie's musical cuts. He also complained that the synchronization of the soundtrack with the film was improperly done, rendering the music half a step lower than it was recorded. In regard to his interpretation of Otello, he felt that some camera cutaways undermined what he was trying to express in his characterization. Overall, he deemed it a "good film" that "could have been better". Otello (1986 film) Otello is a 1986 film based on the Giuseppe Verdi opera of the same name, which was itself based on
Memorials to Giuseppe Verdi includes a statue of Verdi and life-sized statues of four of his well-known characters: Aida, Otello, Falstaff, and Leonora. Carlo Nicoli’s bust of Verdi was erected in Tower Grove Park in Saint. Louis in 1887. Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the home on G.B.Bashanellifuso’s bust of Verdi, "a gift of the Italian Colony of Philadelphia to the city in 1907." A bust of Verdi by Orazio Grossone was placed in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on 1914. The International Astronomical Union named the impact crater Verdi on the planet Mercury after the composer in 1979 Verdi Inlet () is an ice-filled