Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest musicians in history and symbol of Italian unity, was about to abandon music when he composed Nabucco, the opera that consecrated him as an artist and turned him ...

The Canadian Opera Company has opened its 2024-25 mainstage season with a company premiere: Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco is currently onstage at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, ...

On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at Lisner Auditorium, Washington Concert Opera (WCO) will present one of Verdi's first works, Nabucco, an opera that catapulted his career and is considered a ...

Nabucco is the opera that brought Giuseppe Verdi back from the brink. He had been ready to give up composing for good. What was it that made Verdi's Nabucco such a pivotal piece in his career? It was ...

It has taken Seattle Opera 50 years to produce Verdi’s “Nabucco,” and during those years, the audience demand has not been exactly deafening. On the plus side, this often-neglected early opera has ...

Nabucco (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 biblical books of Jeremiah ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The company’s opening week included performances of “Nabucco” and the Requiem. By Oussama Zahr This week, the Metropolitan Opera ...

Last Saturday, The Metropolitan Opera kicked off its Live in HD series for 2017 with a spectacular performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco. The performance had a number of elements in its favour.

Verdi’s third opera, after OBERTO and UN REGNO DI GIORNO, it was considered his first big hit (in 1842 at La Scala) but you couldn’t tell it from its track record hereabouts: It certainly didn’t take ...

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met as the title king in Nabucco, under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine on Great Performances at the Met ...

If you want to know why “Va, pensiero sull’ali dorate!” (Go, my thoughts on golden wings) is Italy’s unofficial national anthem, tune into the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Verdi’s “Nabucco” on ...

“Nabucco” may take place in biblical times, with the Israelites trying to get out from under Assyrian control, but whenever a group or nation feels the weight of oppression, Verdi’s opera still has ...