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The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 6, 2024

Runtime

3h 0m

Genres

Music, Drama

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

Production Companies

The Metropolitan Opera

Director

Elijah Moshinsky

Description

The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), catapulted the 28-year-old composer to international fame. The music and Verdi himself were subsumed into a surge of patriotic fervor culminating in the foundation of the modern nation of Italy. Specifically, the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ('Va, pensiero'), in which the Israelites express their longing for their homeland, came to stand for the country’s aspirations for unity and that exciting era in Italian history, the Risorgimento, or 'Resurgence'.