Othello

Othello, with choreography by Lar Lubovitch and music by Elliot B. Goldenthal, is a dance in three acts, that originatied as a story in the Hecatommithi (Hundred Tales) of Giraldi Cintio published in Venice in 1566. The characters and basic plot were subsequently adapted by William Shakespeare into his play, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, around 1602.

Othello was given its World Premiere by American Ballet Theatre in 1997 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Othello is a co-production with San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.