DIO MI POTEVI – OTELLO’S PRAYER
DIO MI POTEVI – OTELLO’S PRAYER

Summary/Abstract: Prayers or sacred expressions are common in most operas composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Desdemona’s Ave Maria in act IV of Otello is probably the first one to come to mind, while at the other end of the spectrum lies Iago’s Credo, the self-acknowledgement of a Mephistophelian character. The present article analyses Otello’s monologue in act III – Dio! mi potevi scagliar – from the perspective of the sacred, revealing a prayer uttered by a man wavering between good and evil.

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