lunes, 18 de marzo de 2013

OBLIVION 1: OTHELLO

This Italian comedy group called Oblivion is most famous for its literary adaptations, told entirely with song parodies (mostly of Italian songs, though you may recognize some by composers and lyricists of other nations).
So, I've decided to share them with you.
 Oblivion's first such play was a half-hour rendition of Othello (though drawing more upon Verdi's 1880s opera than upon Shakespeare's Stuart-era tragedy). It is not only a work of fine art, but also a real "popera", and the longest of their literary-musical travesties:


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