Verdi: Nabucco (2-DVD) – Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Artists: Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Ivan Magrì, Saioa Hernández, Michele Pertusi, Annalisa Stroppa, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Orchestra Giovanile della Via Emilia
Conductor: Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Director: Stefano Ricci
Format: NTSC
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Korean, Japanese
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 2 
DVD Release Date: March 20, 2020
Run Time: 160 minutes

Before starting to work on Nabucodonosor, which would later become his iconic Nabucco, Giuseppe Verdi was on the verge of abandoning music, discouraged as he was by the flop of his second opera. 

He then received a libretto by Temistocle Solera almost by chance, as it was destined to another composer. Verdi was very reluctant to put himself to work, but later he referred that one night he threw the manuscript on the table –“The booklet opened: unwillingly, my eyes were drawn to the page that was before them and on these verses: Va, pensiero, sullali dorate.” 

Nabucodonosor was a triumph, the public of La Scala repaid him with an unprecedented success, hailing all the numbers of the opera with warm ovations and paying a special tribute to the chorus “Va, pensiero, sullali dorate,” which in Italy has since become a sort of second national anthem. 

This production was filmed at the 2019 Festival Verdi in Parma. It is a very powerful and engaging creative project by 2018 Abbiati prize winner duo Ricci/Forte. The most striking feature of this staging is that the action takes place in 2046 on a military ship, which reminds us of an Ark. This performance portrays a dystopic society where we can find many references to real contemporary events.
 

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