Otello (usually singing it in German). The Russian heroic tenor Ivan Yershov was a renowned pre-World War I Otello in his native country. His compatriot Arnold Azrikan achieved his greatest recognition as a dramatic tenor in Otello. For this performance he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946. Enrico Caruso was studying "Otello" when he died unexpectedly in 1921, thus thwarting the New York Metropolitan Opera company's plans to stage the opera as a new vehicle for its star tenor. Currently, Plácido Domingo has appeared in more video productions of the opera than any other tenor. Also, he has recorded the
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