Bel canto, ice that burns
Power, oppression, betrayal, exile, impossible love, religious conflict and the struggle of civilizations. Here is one of those frequent lyrical episodes in which a current story at the time of its premiere is metaphorically told to us through the veil of a historical transposition. In Jerusalem and Babylon, in the 6th century BC, and in the associations established by the public between the ordeal of the Jewish people and the nationalist demands of the Italy of 1842, the Italians found the opera that, at that time, they needed to cry out against the foreign oppression in which they lived.
That opera was Nabucco , an accidental and reluctantly received commission that became a fundamental hinge for the future of G. Verdi, because it reactivated his compositional spirit -Verdi had lost his wife and two children- and began with it the so-called " galley years”, that period of chained successes and compulsive work that led him to meet the milestone of writing 17 operas in 12 years. Verdi's rise begins, then, in Nabucco , a lyrical dramain four parts that springs from the overture with a force unknown for the time and unfolds to the end with dazzling melodic developments, a captivating dramatic crescendo, an advanced psychological definition of the characters and a sculpted chorus as one more element of the action. A shocking opera full of unforgettable moments.
In six performances with a markedly Latin double cast, in which the baritone Juan Jesús Rodríguez and the soprano María José Siri stand out, as well as Simón Orfila, the Maestranza presents a new own production with international theaters with stage direction by Christiane Jatahy and a musical by Francesco Ivan Ciampa in front of the ROSS and the Maestranza Theater Choir.
