Nabucco

Live performance at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova June 2004 Original stage production by Operhaus Zurich DVD Dynamic live recording Cat 33465 Nabucco short for Nabucodonosor English Nebuchadnezzar is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera based on the Biblical story and the 1836 play by Auguste AnicetBourgeois and Francis Cornue It is VerdiÕs third opera and the one which is considered to have permanently established his reputation as a composer Nabucco 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 The historical events are used as background for a romantic and political plot