NABUCCO

May 18, 2018 at May 24, 2018

OPERA NICE CÔTE D'AZUR

Opera in four acts libretto Temistocle Solera, based on Nebuchadnezzar (1836), drama of Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu Creation on March 9, 1842, at the Scala of Milan singing in Italian, surtitled in french

When Nabucco triumph on the stage of La Scala, the life of Giuseppe Verdi age of 29 years, has already been marked by tragic events: the death of his wife and two sons. After the fiasco of his first opera a giorno di regno, two years ago, Verdi took resolutely music paper to compose, with a libretto by Temistocle Solera, the masterpiece that will open the path of consecration. It is in these vortices of emotions that the famous choir 'Va pensiero' is born. Metaphor for the Italian condition, then subject to the Austrian domination, this song kindled, from its inception, the hearts of the Patriots. The historian Pierre Milza, it is apparent that "this opera and others participated in the awakening of the Italian national feeling and the emergence of the spirit of 1848. The religious drama and the double story of love and jealousy of the daughters of the King Nabucco, Fenena and Abigaille - both the Jew - Ishmael-loving play on background of the biblical episode of the deportation of the Jews in Babylon following the siege of Jerusalem in 586 BC.

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