Nabucco - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Cast
musical direction
Paolo Carignani
Staging
Günter Krämer
stage
Petra Buchholz
Manfred Voss
Costumes
Falk Bauer
light
Manfred Voss
Nabucco
Enkhbat Amartuvshin
Ismaele
Alessandro Liberatore
Zaccaria
Roberto Tagliavini
Abigaille
Anna Netrebko
Fenena
Szilvia Vörös

Verdi not only achieved his breakthrough with Nabucco in 1842, it was also his first stage work, which was performed in Vienna a year after the world premiere in Milan - under the personal direction of the composer. Nabucco did not find a permanent repertoire of the Vienna State Opera until 2001, however. Since then, the play about the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the deportation of the Jews into Babylonian exile has also been one of Verdi's most frequently shown operas at this house. The popularity is due not only to the famous prisoner's choir, but also to the monumental figures of the megalomaniac ruler and his erotically frustrated and all the more power-obsessed stepdaughter Abigaille. With this melodically and rhythmically sweeping score, the young Verdi inherited the legacy of his predecessors Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.

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