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 ...
The Verdi Chorus' 40th Anniversary season continues with its landmark Fall 2023 Concert 40! for two performances only at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on November 18 and 19. Led by ...
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 ...
A powerful and choral work, which in the collaboration between the de Carolis institution of Sassari and the Lirico institution of Cagliari brought five Sardinian singers to the stage of the Comunale.
There’s quite a bit of history behind the Met Opera’s new production of Verdi’s epic opera “Nabucco,” which will be transmitted live in HD on Saturday at Symphony Hall in Allentown. The story is not ...
In this video, we enjoy a very special ‘al fresco’ (and, of course, Covid-aware) rendition of one of the best-loved pieces of music from the canon of Giuseppe Verdi. London’s Royal Opera Chorus ...
Famous for its Act 3 chorus, Verdi’s Nabucco is in fact a multi-faceted opera with rousing arias, internecine conflicts, nations at war and a dandy mad scene for the Old Testament tyrant of the title.
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 ...
Verdi’s opera Nabucco, performed by the Israeli Opera at Masada, was a grand spectacle. The spectacular ingredients were all there – the imposing silhouette of the mountain as backdrop, the vast ...
To describe the 1842 “Nabucco” as Verdi’s first smash hit is not as disrespectful as it seems. Only his third opera, it made Verdi a household name. The “take-home tune,” the great chorus of the ...