2/19/2023 0 Comments Verdi opera 5th centuryThis is a traditional production from La Scala, and we have two abolute monsters in the main roles: Renato Bruson as Nabucco and Ghena Dimitrova as Abigaille. Donizetti himself conducted some performances of Nabucco around Italy, which shows the huge success of the opera. ![]() ![]() Then the premiere came, the theater exploded in applause after the curtain went down and the rest is history. In one of Nabucco's rehearsals, the one and only Donizetti was present, and he was astounded, he had never seen something quite like Nabucco before. In the morning, he went to see Merelli to say he accepted to write the opera. That night, he read Nabucco's libretto multiple times, he couldn't stop reading it. After reading that, he still couldn't sleep, but this time because he couldn't stop thinking about the libretto. That night, Verdi couldn't sleep, he opened a random page of said libretto and the first words he read were Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate. Merelli then insisted and put the libretto in Verdi's pocket. Verdi said no, that he was retired from opera. ![]() ![]() Legend says that Merelli, who was La Scala's manager back then, once found Verdi near La Scala and begged him to work something out with this libretto he had for Otto Nicolai that the latter refused. Verdi had retired from opera, he was depressed and in shambles because his wife and children had died while he was composing his last opera. Nabucco is the opera that sent Verdi to stardon, after the meh reception of his first opera, Oberto, and the absolute fiasco that was the premiere of Un giorno di regno. We finish this wonderful Muti week the same way we started it: with early-Verdi.
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