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Nabucco
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(BLU-RAY)
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Verdi's third opera was created at the Teatro alIa ScaIa in Milan in 1842, in the epicentre of the 'Risorgimento and the capitaI of ltalian nationalism, at a time where the supporters of ItaIian independance from Austrian occupation were starting to make their voices heard. The 'Chorus of the Hebrew sIaves', introduced at a pivotal point in the third act where the Jews, exiled from Babylone by Nabuchodonosor, mourn their country, immediateIy resonated with the ltaIian nationaIists and has ever since been a symbol of ItaIian nationaI identity. BoIdly transposing the action out of bibIicaI times and into ItaIian Risorgimento, French director Arnaud Bernard sets the opera in the Milanese opera house during the uprisings of 1848. Soprano Susanna Branchini is sublime as Nabuchodonosor s daughter Abigaille, while lsraeli-born conductor Daniel Oren, a true connoisseur of Verdi's musical Ianguage as weIl as a regular guest at the Arena di Verona, conducts this Iyrical epic with great panache. |
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