Iwona Sobotka plays Desdemona in Otello – Teatro Coccia, Novara 2025

The voice immediately stands out for the beauty of its timbre, which is that of a lyric soprano, but full, soft, enveloping and at the same time delicate in its ability to bend sounds into mezzevoci of unusual warmth and bewitching density. In short, she is not the usual Desdemona with a voice bent on an angelic singing with a faded candour, but seems to follow in the footsteps of the Tebaldian tradition, in favour of an opulent timbral impasto that highlights her even when lyricism must unfold on the wings of an intensity that sees her impose herself in the great concertato of the third act, where her voice vibrates and invades the hall, making one perceive vocal emotions of other times.