For 10 points, the title character dies while weeping over his dead wife Desdemona in what Giuseppe Verdi opera based on a Shakespearean tragedy?
The lead baritone's aria, "Credo in un Dio crudel," contains the renunciation "Heaven is an old wives' tale," while the main vengeance plot is sworn in the Act II finale, "Si pel ciel marmoreo giuro!" Minor characters in this work include Roderigo, Lodovico, and Emilia; the chorus represents Venetians and Cypriots. The soprano soloist's "Ave Maria" in Act IV precedes her death by strangulation. For 10 points, the title character dies while weeping over his dead wife Desdemona in what Giuseppe Verdi opera based on a Shakespearean tragedy?
The lead baritone's aria, "Credo in un Dio crudel," contains the renunciation "Heaven is an old wives' tale," while the main vengeance plot is sworn in the Act II finale, "Si pel ciel marmoreo giuro!"
{Otello} [or {Othello}]