Organization

Singer

Soprano

Arianna Manganello

Fenena

Baritone

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Nabucco

Maria José Siri

Abigail

Bass

Marko Mimica

Zachary

Tenor

Patrick Cook

Ishmael

Karis Tucker

Tyler Zimmerman

The High Priest of Ba'al

Antonia Kim

Anna

Andrew Dickinson

Abdallo

Stage director

Keith Warner

Conductor

Carlo Montanaro

Costume designer

Julia Müer

Set designer

Tilo Steffens

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Byung Gil Kim

Saioa Hernández

Gideon Poppe

Maria Motolygina

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Others

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Italian

Berlin

Germany

Nabucco Verdi

Public

German

English

Approved

“Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate” – “Fly, thought, on golden wings” – when, on March 9, 1842, the choir of La Scala in Milan intoned for the first time the lines of the Hebrew choir in the third act of Giuseppe Verdi's new opera NABUCCO , he wrote a piece of music history. The "prisoners' choir" is still considered by many Italians to be the national anthem of their country and the young composer became a beacon of hope on the opera scene.

The drama about the Babylonian captivity of the people of Israel under King Nebuchadnezzar is one of Verdi's most popular operas and was last controversially staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin 13 years ago by Hans Neuenfels. In the Verdi Year 2013, Keith Warner, one of the most well-known directors on the international opera scene, presented his approach to the material: the Briton staged, among other things, LOHENGRIN at the Bayreuth Festival and the RING DES NIBELUNGEN at Covent Garden and most recently directed the Copenhagen Opera House. Based on the time when the play was created, which was marked by the transition from feudal structures to bourgeois-industrial society, Warner places the contrast between two peoples in the foreground of his production: the Hebrews,

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble