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The San Francisco Opera returns to WRTI! Tune in on Saturday mornings through October to hear operatic favorites, recorded live from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. Music Director and Principal Conductor Nicola Luisotti leads the second-largest opera company in North America. This week, in Verdi's masterful adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, a great warrior discovers the one weapon against which he has no defense--his own jealousy. Johan Botha, the South African tenor praised by The New York Times for his "effortless power and clarion tone," makes his San Francisco Opera debut in the title role. Bulgarian soprano Zvetelina Vassileva brings tenderness and vocal brilliance to the role of Desdemona, the faithful wife who finds that facts are no match for manufactured suspicion. Music Director Nicola Luisotti, praised by London's Financial Times for conveying Verdi's "sweep, lyricism, and subtle detail," conducts. More Information: Cast:
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