Verdi: Nabucco

This performance boasts a very decent cast. George Gagnidze is in bullish form as Nabucco, his baritone rock solid if not especially beautiful…Branchini has her wild moments as Abigaille, but... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018 More…

Release Date: 15th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: BAC448
Label: Bel Air Classiques

Verdi: Nabucco

Recorded in HD at the Arena di Verona in August 2017
George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Rubens Pelizzari (Ismaele), Rafał Siwek (Zaccaria), Susanna Branchini (Abigaille), Nino Surguladze (Fenena), Nicolò Ceriani (High Priest of Belo), Paolo Antognetti (Abdallo) & Elena Borin (Anna)
Coro e orchestra dell’Arena di Verona
Daniel Oren (conductor) & Arnaud Bernard (stage director & costume design)

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Set designer: Alessandro Camera

Lighting designer: Paolo Mazzon

Director of stage design: Giuseppe de Filippi Venezia

Verdi's third opera 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 independance from Austrian occupation were starting to make their voices heard. The 'Chorus of the Hebrew slaves', introduced at a pivotal point in the third act where the Jews, exiled from Babylone by Nabuchodonosor, mourn their country, immediately resonated with the Italian nationalists and has ever since been a symbol of Italian national identity. Boldly transposing the action out of biblical times and into Italian Risorgimento, French director Arnaud Bernard sets the opera in the Milanese opera house during the uprisings of 1848. Soprano Susanna Branchini is sublime as Nabuchodonosor’s daughter Abigaille, while Israeli-born conductor Daniel Oren, a true connoisseur of Verdi's musical language as well as a regular guest at the Arena di Verona, conducts this lyrical epic with great panache.

Running time: 132 min.

Booklet: FR / ENG / ITA

Original language: ITA

Subtitles: FR / ENG / GER / ITA / SPA / JP / KOR

Video: Colour, 16/9, Full HD

Audio: PCM 2.0, DTS HD Master audio 5.1

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Awards Issue 2018

This performance boasts a very decent cast. George Gagnidze is in bullish form as Nabucco, his baritone rock solid if not especially beautiful…Branchini has her wild moments as Abigaille, but then it’s just the sort of role for her type of voice; she throws herself into it fearlessly and offers a haughty portrayal…Oren can be a routine conductor but Nabucco clearly means the world to him, and he directs a strong account, attentive to his singers on that enormous stage.

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