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NABUCCO

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Opera in four acts, from Nabuchodonosor (1836), a drama by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu
Libretto by Temistocle Solera
Season 2023-24
Duration: 2h30
Incl. 1 intermission
13

Paradoxically patriotic?

Its emblematic Va, pensiero in the third act resounds forever in the stone of a resurgent Italy and in the blood of its proud inhabitants. Yet however powerful it may be in all its subtle nostalgia, this Slave Chorus alone cannot sum up Giuseppe Verdi’s first triumph: this Nabucco, which premiered on 9 March 1842 on the stage of La Scala in Milan, which suddenly propelled an almost unknown composer not yet 30 into the limelight and ignited a legend. It nonetheless represented a powerful stunt: to stage the bravery shown by a people of slaves openly demanding their independence (the famous biblical episode of the Hebrews of Babylon) in the heart of a city (Milan) marked by centuries of violent covetousness of continental powers and at that very time under the tight grip of the very polite Austro-Hungarian Empire… While subsequently – at the time of the great conflict of 1848 and the irresistible ascent of the Risorgimento – this work was very (too) quickly elevated to the status of the first “patriotic opera”, it would indeed seem in light of recent studies that neither the audience at the premiere, nor even the composer himself, were aware at the time of the potentially “revolutionary” character of the subject. One need only consider the work in its entirety: a stunning biblical show brimming with all opera’s cherished narrative devices – confrontations between the weak and the powerful; ardent yet impossible love; an exotic setting – that was immediately and spontaneously appreciated by its initial audiences in Milan.

Gabriele Viviani
Nabucco
Irina Moreva
Abigaille
John Fiore
Conductor
Stefano Poda
Director, set design, costumes, lighting

First performance at Teatro alla Scala on March 9, 1842

Published by G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen – und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin

Nabucco
Gabriele Viviani
Abigaille
Irina Moreva
Ismaele
Airam Hernández
Zaccaria
Nicolas Courjal
Fenena
Marie Karall
Il Gran Sacerdote
Adrien Djouadou
Abdallo
Maxence Billiemaz
Anna
Nuada Le Drève
Conductor
John Fiore
Director, set design, costumes, lighting
Stefano Poda
Assistant
Paolo Giani Cei

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