Opera Verdi's Nabucco | Arena di Verona 2021

Nabucco, Verdi’s third opera – but first great popular success – was created at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1842, in the epicentre of the “Risorgimento” and the capital of Italian nationalism, at a time where the supporters of Italian independence from Austrian occupation were starting to make their voices heard. Boldly transposing the action out of biblical times and into Italian Risorgimento, French director Arnaud Bernard goes as far as to center the entire opera during the popular uprisings of 1848 and in the insides of the Milanese opera house.

CAST Arnaud Bernard | Stage director, Costume designer Alessandro Camera | Set designer Paolo Mazzon | Lighting designer George Gagnidze | Nabucco Rubens Pelizzari | Ismaele Rafał Siwek | Zaccaria Susanna Branchini | Abigaille Nino Surguladze | Fenena Nicolo Ceriani | Gran Sacerdote di Belo Paolo Antognetti | Abdallo Elena Borin | Anna Coro della Fondazione Arena di Verona Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona Daniel Oren | Conductor PROGRAM Giuseppe Verdi, Nabucco Overture Act I Act II Act III Act IV DETAILS Directed by: Andy Sommer Venue: Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy) Production date: 2017