Complete opera recordings only, excerpts not included. Sung in Italian unless otherwise stated.
Ralph Moore’s survey of the recordings of Otello can be found here.
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CD (singer for Otello, singer for Desdemona, singer for Iago, orchestra and conductor, ordered by conductor. Where an audio recording is live then the location is included.)
| Ramón Vinay, Antonietta Stella, Giuseppe Taddei, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires/Sir Thomas Beecham (Buenos Aires, 1958) | IDIS 6547/48 | review |
| Carlos Guichandut, Cesy Broggini, Giuseppe Taddei, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI/Franco Capuana (1955) | Warner 2564 66143-8 | review |
| Mario del Monaco, Victoria de los Angeles, Leonard Warren, Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/Fausto Cleva (1958) | Pristine Audio PACO154 | review review review |
| Simon O’Neill, Anne Schwanewilms, Gerald Finley, London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis (Barbican, 2009) | LSO Live LSO0700 | review |
| (In English), Charles Craig, Rosalind Plowright, Neil Howlett, Orchestra of English National Opera/Mark Elder (ENO, 1983) | Chandos CHAN3068 | review |
| Nikolai Schukoff, Melody Moore, Lester Lynch, Gulbenkian Orchestra/Lawrence Foster (2016) | Pentatone PTC5186562 | review |
| Robert Dean Smith, Raffaella Angeletti, Sebastian Catana, Oviedo Filarmonía/Friedrich Haider (2007) | Naxos 8.660357-58 | review |
| Ramón Vinay, Dragica (Carla) Martinis, Paul Schöffler, Wiener Philharmoniker/Wilhelm Furtwängler (Salzburg, 1951) | Orfeo C880132I | review |
| Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Peter Glossop, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert Von Karajan (1973) | EMI Classics 456450 2 | review |
| Aleksanders Antonenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlo Guelfi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Riccardo Muti (Chicago, 2011) | CSO Resound CSOR 901 1301 | review review |
| Giovanni Martinelli, Elizabeth Rethberg, Lawrence Tibbett, Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Ettore Panizza (Met, 1938) | Naxos 8.111018-19 | review |
| Ramon Vinay, Herva Nelli, Giuseppe Valdengo, NBC Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Toscanini (2009) | Pristine Audio PACO033 | review |
| Naxos 8.111320-21 | review review | |
| Guild GHCD 2275-77 | review | |
| BMG RCA Red Seal 82876-67893-2 | review |
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Video (stage director, singer for Otello, singer for Desdemona, singer for Iago, orchestra and conductor, ordered by conductor. all video reviews DVD unless otherwise stated)
| Elijah Moshinsky, Johan Botha, Renée Fleming, Falk Struckmann, Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Semyon Bychkov (Met, 2012) | Decca 0743862 | review |
| Francesco Micheli, Gregory Kunde, Carmela Remigio, Lucio Gallo, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice/Myung-Whun Chung (La Fenice, 2013) | C Major 716604 (Blu-ray) | review |
| Herbert Von Karajan, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Peter Glossop, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert Von Karajan (Munich and Salzburg, 1973) | Deutsche Grammophon 000440 073 4040 GH | review |
| Franco Zeffirelli, Jon Vickers, Renata Scotto, Cornell MacNeil, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/James Levine (Met, 1978) | Sony Classical 88697910129 | review review |
| Graham Vick, Placido Domingo, Barbara Fritolli, Leo Nucci, Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Riccardo Muti (La Scala, 2001) | TDK DVOPOTEL | review |
| Stephen Langridge, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya, Carlos Álvarez, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Riccardo Muti (Salzburg, 2008) | C Major 725008 | review |
| C Major 701504 (Blu-ray) | review | |
| Unitel 701408 | review | |
| Willy Decker, José Cura, Krassimara Stoyanova, Lado Ataneli, Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceu/Antonio Rós-Marba (Liceu, 2006) | Opus Arte OA 0963 D | review |
| Hans-Peter Lehmann, Hans Beirer, Renata Tebaldi, William Dooley, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin/Giuseppe Patané (Berlin, 1962) | Arthaus Musik 101 644 | review |
| Gianfranco De Bosio, Vladimir Atlantov, Kiri Te Kanawa, Piero Cappuccilli, Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona/Zoltan Pesko (Verona,1982) | Warner 4509-99214-2 | review |
| (In German) Otto Schenk, Wolfgang Windgassen, Sena Jurinac, Norman Mittelmann, Süddeutsch Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester/Argeo Quadri (1965) | Arthaus 101 505 | review |
| Elijah Moshinsky, Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Sergei Lieferkus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Sir Georg Solti (Royal Opera House, 1992) | Opus Arte OAR3102D | review |
| Vincent Boussard, José Cura, Dorothea Röschmann, Carlos Álvarez, Sächsischer Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann (Salzburg, 2016) | C Major 740104 (Blu-ray) | review review |
