Applause to the Roman for Luciano Padovani's Italian premiere
.... the dancers and the tangueros restore strength and physical presence to Othello, Desdemona and Jago, the real protagonist in this drama that sees the death of innocents and the never subsided torment of those who are devoured by the 'green-eyed monster', jealousy that drives madness. .... and so the drama is consumed in a crescendo of intensity. Luciano Padovani has hit the mark: the passion for tango and dance moves in a combination that sees the rigor of one marrying with the fluidity of the other thanks to its extraordinary performers ...
Silvia Allegri / L'Arena

Padovani, in the progressive development of the clear plot, brings out in his choreography the effective expressive force, the emotional subtext, innervating Shakespeare's story with biting cues, fast and allusive gestures, especially in the overwhelming sequence of the explosive final jealousy of Othello towards Desdemona: a dance of violent movements, of fatal gestures, in a non-stop struggle between holds, falls, tugs, which express all the passion of love and all the mad blindness that the worm of jealousy produces, "that monster with green who delights in the food on which he eats"...
Giuseppe Distefano / Exibart