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Nabucco
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 (DVD - Code 2)
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| Verdi's third opera was created at the Teatro aIla Scala in MiIan in 1842, in the epicentre of the 'Risorgimento and the capital of ItaIian nationaIism, at a time where the supporters of Italian independance from Austrian occupation were starting to make their voices heard. The 'Chorus of the Hebrew slaves', introduced at a pivotal point in the third act where the Jews, exiIed from BabyIone by Nabuchodonosor, mourn their country, immediately resonated with the Italian nationalists and has ever since been a symbol of ItaIian nationaI identity. Boldly transposing the action out of bibIicaI times and into ltalian Risorgimento, French director Arnaud Bernard sets the opera in the MiIanese opera house during the uprisings of 1848. Soprano Susanna Branchini is subIime as Nabuchodonosor s daughter AbigaiIIe, whiIe IsraeIi-born conductor DanieI Oren, a true connoisseur of Verdi's musicaI language as weII as a reguIar guest at the Arena di Verona, conducts this lyricaI epic with great panache. |
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