Abdallo escribió:
Ese Yago solitario aparece apenas en la obra de Shakespeare
"Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions: but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion."
"I have't. It's engender'd. Hell and night
must give that monstruous birth to the world's light."
"I stand accountant for as great a sin,
But partly led to diet my revenge,
For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof
Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;
And nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,
Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
At least into a jealousy so strong
That judgment cannot cure."
"When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now: for whiles this honest fool
Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes
And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,
That she repeals him for her body's lust;
And by how much she strives to do him good,
She shall undo her credit with the Moor.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all."
Ya sé que el "Credo" lo inventó Boito, me parece una forma inteligente de resumir lo anterior en un aria; igual que "Già nella notte densa" como sustituto del primer acto de la obra de Shakespeare. En la ópera tiene, de hecho, menos ocasiones para mostrar ese carácter; yo veo sobre todo tres: su intervención durante la tormenta al principio, el "Credo" y el final del acto III. Es, lógicamente, una concepción personal del personaje. Lo más parecido que he visto es la interpretación de Kenneth Branagh en su "Othello" de 1995, bien es verdad que adapta la obra para, entre otras cosas, darle cancha a esa vertiente del personaje.