Otello (Opéra National de Paris)
Verdi's "Otello" from the Opéra National de Paris in the Opéra Bastille with a cast including Renee Fleming couldn't have looked better on paper. The reality was altogether different. A dire production from Andrei Serban and a barn of an auditorium with acoustics from the middle, rear of the stalls that make the Met seem positively intimate.Serban entirely fails to generate basic stagecraft (His Turandot is amazing…