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8 unusual facts about Nabucco


Clara Jacobo

In 1938, she sang there, the Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth" by Verdi, also 1938, Abigail in Nabucco at the Festival in the Arena of Verona.

Daniel Oren

His opera repertoire includes many Verdi operas, including Aida, Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata, Rigoletto and Nabucco; Puccini operas such as Madama Butterfly, Tosca and Turandot; as well as Andrea Chenier (Giordano), Norma (Bellini), La Juive (Halevy) and Carmen (Bizet).

Energy in Hungary

Nabucco and South Stream gas pipelines may be constructed via Hungary to other European countries.

The Nabucco gas pipeline is expected to pipe 31bn cubic metres of gas annually in a 3,300 km long pipeline constructed via Hungary, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Austria.

Francesco Anile

In the last few years, Francesco Anile's repertory has gradually grown enriched by major roles, such as: Cavaradossi (Tosca), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Luigi (Tabarro), Ishmael (Nabucco), Manrico (Il trovatore), Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), and Radamès (Aida).

Je chante avec toi Liberté

The melody is from "Va, pensiero" (Italian: va penˈsjɛro) also known in English as the "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from the opera Nabucco (1842) by Giuseppe Verdi.

Teresa Ruggeri

She performed in several more world premieres at that house, including Francisca in Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Padilla (1841), Anna in Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco (1842), and Viclinda in Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843).

Wiktor Zin

The lowering of the coffin into the ground was accompanied by the music of a traditional Góral funeral ensemble as well as two trumpeters who played the works Hejnal, Barka and "Va Pensiero" from the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi.


Felice Varesi

He set the scene for a succeeding generation of great Verdi baritones that included Francesco Graziani, Leone Giraldoni and Antonio Cotogni, while his chief contemporary rival was Giorgio Ronconi (the creator of Verdi's Nabucco).

Norine Burgess

Additional operatic successes include Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) and Carmen (Mercedes) with the Vancouver Opera, Fenena in Nabucco with Manitoba Opera, Albert Herring (Nancy) with the Calgary Opera and many appearances with the Edmonton Opera.

Padania

As national anthem, Lega Nord chose the Va, pensiero chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco, in which the exiled Hebrew slaves lament for their lost homeland.

Sieglinde Wagner

Sieglinde Wagner had a very wide repertoire, including Clairon in Richard Strauss's Capriccio, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier, Magdalena in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Fenena in Nabucco, the mother in Hansel and Gretel and Mary in The Flying Dutchman.

Valentina Bartolomasi

Other roles in her stage repertoire included Abigaille in Nabucco, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Odabella in Attila, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, and the title role in Isabeau among others.


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