Nabucco van Verdi at Zuiderstrand Theatre

ANCIENT BABYLON
King Drama on the Euphrates When you come Nabucco eyes and ears short. Verdi took off with spectacular crowd scenes, moving love duets and the famous slave chorus. The story is set in ancient Babylon. The Tatarstan State Opera conjures the ancient world with pomp on stage.

VERDI
Nabucco Verdi recorded in 1842 his first major success; He was 28. The Italians in the North were then under Austria and felt occupied by the Habsburgs. Verdi's opera about the Jewish people to hit back gets into Babylonian captivity freedom therefore like a bomb. Dozens of nights in a row was sold out Scala in Milan. The Italians regarded the slaves as their second choir anthem.