Otello (1986 film) Otello (1986 film) Otello is a 1986 film based on the Giuseppe Verdi opera of the same name, which was itself based on the Shakespearean play "Othello". The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starred Plácido Domingo in the title role, Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona and Justino Díaz as Iago. For the movie's soundtrack, Lorin Maazel conducted the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala. The film premiered in West Germany on August 28, 1986 and received a U.S. theatrical release on September 12, 1986. It was nominated for a Bafta Award and a Golden Globe for Best
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