NABUCCO Geneva 2023 Nicola Alaimo, Saioa Hernández, Riccardo Zanellato
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Nabucco
- Composer: Verdi Giuseppe, Antonino Fogliani
- Libretto: Temistocle Solera Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Grand Théâtre de Genève, Switzerland
- Recorded: June 17, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Nicola Alaimo, Saioa Hernández, Riccardo Zanellato, Davide Giusti, Ena Pongrac, Giulia Bolcato, Omar Mancini, William Meinert
- Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
- Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- Chorus: Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus
- Chorus Master: Alan Woodbridge
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OperaVision
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, frsubs, itsubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Nabucco (Italian pronunciation: [naˈbukko], short for Nabucodonosor [naˌbukoˈdɔːnozor, -donoˈzɔr]; English: “Nebuchadnezzar”) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Daniel, and on the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu. However, Antonio Cortese’s ballet adaptation of the play (with its necessary simplifications), given at La Scala in 1836, was a more important source for Solera than the play itself. Under its original name of Nabucodonosor, the opera was first performed at La Scala in Milan on 9 March 1842.
Nabucco is the opera that is considered to have permanently established Verdi’s reputation as a composer. He commented that “this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that Nabucco was born under a lucky star.”
The opera follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian king Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar II). The historical events are used as background for a romantic and political plot. The best-known number from the opera is the “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” (“Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” / “Fly, thought, on golden wings”), a chorus that is regularly given an encore in many opera houses when performed today.