https://youtube/watch?v=D6JN0l7A_mE Our last performance of Verdis Nabucco was two years ago. This particular chorus is always a favourite. Wiki gives a good description : Nabucco (short for Nabucodonosor, English Nebuchadnezzar) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on biblical stories from the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Daniel and the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue, although Antonio Corteses ballet adaptation of the play (with its necessary simplifications), given at La Scala in 1836, was a more important source for Solera than the play itself.[1] Under its original name of Nabucodonosor, the opera was first performed at La Scala in Milan on 9 March 1842. Nabucco is the opera which is considered to have permanently established Verdis reputation as a composer. He commented that this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that Nabucco was born under a lucky star.[2] It follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered, and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco (in English, Nebuchadnezzar II). The historical events are used as background for a romantic and political plot. The best-known number from the opera is the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va, pensiero, sullali dorate / Fly, thought, on golden wings, a chorus which is regularly given an encore in many opera houses when performed today.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:05:29 +0000
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