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“This time, opting for dramatic clarity over musical splendor,” Phillip Huscher writes in his program notes for the orchestra, “Verdi shortened, refocused, tightened and recomposed the grand concertato finale so that Iago’s asides — including his instructions to Roderigo to kill Cassio — which previously were buried in the densely woven ensemble, now emerge vividly.”

In place of the customary concertato that ends the third act, Muti substituted the revised version of the finale Verdi made for Paris in 1894, seven years after the La Scala premiere.