Nabucco Opera in two acts Libretto by
Temistocle Solera Performed in Italian
Music Director and Conductor
- Evgeny Samoilov Stage Director - Andrejs Zagars Stage
Movement Director - Elita Bukovska Set Designer -
Andris Freibergs Assistant Set Designer -
Elena Zykova Costume Designer - Kristine
Pasternaka Choirmasters - Tatyana Gromova, Yulia Senyukova
Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes (with
one intermission) Premiered on 2 December 2006
The opera was Verdi’s
first to be an instant and tremendous success with the public Verdi said that
"with this opera, my artistic career may be said to have begun".
Nabucco’s success helped the 28-year-old composer to overcome the
disastrous premieres of his first two operas and a personal tragedy and to
permanently establish his reputation as a composer.
This production gives
unusual treatment to the biblical story about the defeat of the Jews by the
Babylonian King Nabucco and the conflict between the two nations. The story is
transferred to the mid-20th century, when the dictatorial regimes in Europe
(Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, and Stalin in the USSR) severely
persecuted and repressed the Jewish people.
The action is set at a metro
station, where people come to hide from hostilities, bombing and the cruelty of
the outside world. But the place gives an ambivalent impression: on the one hand
it is safe, while on the other hand the closed space makes the characters’ inner
and outward conflict still more piercing and tragic.
The opera was Verdi’s first to be an instant and tremendous success with the public Verdi said that “with this opera, my artistic career may be said to have begun”. Nabucco’s success helped the 28-year-old composer to overcome the disastrous premieres of his first two operas and a personal tragedy and to permanently establish his reputation as a composer.
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