{"product_id":"verdi-otello-11","title":"Verdi: Otello","description":"After the success of Aida in December 1871, and despite his enormous popularity, Verdi retired as an operatic composer. + It took the young publisher Giulio Ricordi and composer and librettist Arrigo Boito a number of years to entice him to embark on what was originally called Jago, and only later known as Otello. + Verdi retained a reverence for Shakespeare, and had already composed Macbeth. + With Otello, completed in November 1886, and triumphantly received, he created a masterpiece from a play that, as Bernard Shaw noted, had all the ingredients of an Italian opera.","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49607890698520,"sku":"730099035774","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/2805057.jpg?v=1777836153","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/verdi-otello-11","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}