Nabucco

Giuseppe Verdi

When Giuseppe Verdi met Bartolomeo Merelli, an impresario at the Teatro alla Scala, he had no intention of composing a new opera: he was devastated by the death of his son and wife and was convinced that he was a terrible musician due to the fiasco of his first opera, Oberto conte di San Bonifacio. Merelli, a fraud who regularly swindled composers out of their fees, manages to slip the libretto for a new opera, the Nabuccodonosor, which had been refused by Carl Otto Nicolai, into the pocket of his topcoat. On arriving home, Verdi threw away the libretto in rage, meaning to destroy it, but when it fell open on Va pensiero, it was the inspiration that he was looking for.

Nabucco
An opera in four parts
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Temistocole Solera

Staging by the Teatro Lirico, Cagliari

Artists

Conductor
Renato Palumbo

Director
Leo Muscato

Scenes
Tiziano Santi

Costumes
Silvia Aymonino

Light design
Alessandro Verazzi

Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini

Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Abigaille
Susanna Branchini

Nabucco
Dimitri Platanias

Ismaele
Paolo Antognetti

Zaccaria
Riccardo Zanellato

Fenena
Anna Malavasi

Il gran sacerdote di Belo
Luciano Leoni

Anna
Elena Borin

Abdallo
Stefano Consolini

Stalls 1	€ 100
Stalls 2	€ 80
Stalls 3	€ 60
Boxes	€ 35
Gallery	€ 20
Limited visibility	€ 10

Season 2016/17

Opera

Nabucco

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Where

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino