Organization

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Conductor

Giampaolo Bisanti

Stage director

Stage director (+3)

Keith Warner

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Tilo Steffens

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Julia Müer

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+2)

Jeremy Bines

Baritone

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Nabucco

Bass (+2)

Roberto Tagliavini

Zachary

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Abigail

Bass-baritone (+3)

Christian Simmons

The High Priest of Ba'al

Tenor (+4)

Andrew Dickinson

Abdallo

Orchestra

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Chorus

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Tenor

José Simerilla Romero

Ishmael

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Rihab Chaieb

Fenena

Soprano (+1)

Hulkar Sabirova

Anna

“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 staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2000 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,

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