Editing Otello (section)

===Subsequent productions===
The opera was first seen in the US at the [[Academy of Music (New York City)|Academy of Music]] in New York on 16 April 1888 and in the UK on 5 July 1889 in London.{{sfn|Kimbell|2001|p=1008}} At its first appearance in [[Vienna]] (14 March 1888), the title role was sung by [[Hermann Winkelmann]], who had created the title role in [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]'s ''[[Parsifal]]'' at Bayreuth in 1882.<ref>Alfred Loewenberg, ''Annals of Opera 1597–1940'', Rowman and Littlefield, 1978, column 1127. For Winkelmann, see [[Kutsch, K. J.]]; [[Riemens, Leo]] (2003). ''[[Großes Sängerlexikon]]'' (fourth edition, in German), p. 5067. Munich: K. G. Saur. {{ISBN|9783598115981}}.</ref>

''Otello'' was given its Paris premiere by the [[Paris Opera|Opéra]] at the [[Palais Garnier]] on 12 October 1894 with [[Albert Saléza]] in the title role, [[Rose Caron]] as Desdemona, and [[Paul Taffanel]] conducting. It was performed in a French translation by [[Arrigo Boito]] and [[Camille Du Locle]].<ref name=Wolff>Stéphane Wolff, ''L'Opéra au Palais Garnier (1875–1962)'', Paris: Slatkine, 1962, p. 165.</ref> Verdi composed a short ballet for the finale of Act 3 (ceremony of welcome for the Venetian ambassadors).{{sfn|Kimbell|2001|p=1008}} The production was directed by [[Alexandre Lapissida]], the costumes were designed by Charles Bianchini, and the sets, by Marcel Jambon (Act I); {{Ill|Amable Petit|lt=Amable|fr|Amable (1846-1916)}} and Eugène Gardy (Act II); [[Eugène Louis Carpezat|Eugène Carpezat]] (Act III); and [[Auguste Alfred Rubé]] and [[Philippe Chaperon]] (Act IV).<ref name=Wolff/>
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File:Press illustration by A de Parys of a 1894 performance in Paris of the opera Otello by Verdi – Gallica 2016.jpg|Illustration from ''[[Le Monde illustré]]'' of the 1894 Paris premiere
File:Marcel Jambon - Giuseppe Verdi - Otello Act I set design model.jpg|Set-design model by Marcel Jambon for Act 1 of the Paris premiere
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Today, the opera is frequently performed throughout the world, a staple of the standard repertoire.<ref name=Operabase>{{cite web|title=Opera statistics|url=http://operabase.com/top.cgi?lang=en|publisher=[[Operabase]]|access-date=14 October 2018|archive-date=5 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905080732/http://operabase.com/top.cgi?lang=en|url-status=dead}}</ref>