Watch Otello

Iago believes Otello denied him a promotion and moved up Cassio instead. Therefore, trusted ensign Iago vows to destroy the Venetian army's Moorish general and his lieutenant and implicate Otello's wife in the process. Giuseppe Verdi's opera based on William Shakespeare's tragic play about racism, jealousy and betrayal stars Placido Domingo as Otello, Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona and Justino Diaz as the treacherous Iago.