Madrid's Teatro Real raises the curtain on the new season with one of the most intense and moving operas in the repertoire: Otello , by Giuseppe Verdi. The work, inspired by Shakespeare's Othello, or The Moor of Venice, can be enjoyed in the capital between September 19 and October 6 at 7:30 p.m. , in a series of performances that promise to become a first-class cultural event.