The opera Otello was composed by which of the following?

The opera Otello was composed by which of the following?

• A. Puccini
• B. Wagner
• C. Berg
• D. Verdi

Answer: (D)

Otello was composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi stands as a central figure in 19th-century Italian opera, and Otello, created with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, adapts Shakespeare’s Othello into a powerful dramatic tragedy that premiered in 1887 at La Scala. The music is intensely expressive, with Verdi’s skill at shaping vocal lines and orchestral tension to mirror the characters’ passions and fears. By contrast, the other composers listed are associated with different repertoires: Puccini wrote intimate, melodically lush works like La Bohème, Tosca, and Turandot; Wagner built vast, mythic cycles with a distinctive leitmotivic approach; Berg produced Wozzeck, a groundbreaking 20th-century opera rooted in atonality. So the correct composer for Otello is Verdi.