Organization

Arena di Verona Opera Festival

Orchestra

Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona

Arena di Verona

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Stage director

Stage director (+6)

Stefano Poda

Set designer

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Choreographer

Conductor

Pinchas Steinberg

Chorus

Coro della Fondazione Arena di Verona

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+1)

Roberto Gabbiani

Bass (+3)

Gabriele Sagona

The High Priest of Ba'al

Paolo Giani Cei

Set designer (+3)

Michele G Olcese

Tenor (+1)

Galeano Salas

Ishmael

Baritone

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Nabucco

Tenor (+2)

Carlo Bosi

Abdallo

Matteo Macchioni

Soprano

Daniela Cappiello

Anna

Tenor

Francesco Meli

Alexander Vinogradov

Zachary

Bass-baritone (+3)

Christian Van Horn

Soprano (+1)

Olga Maslova

Abigail

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Francesca Di Sauro

Fenena

Baritone (+2)

Luca Salsi

Bass (+2)

Roberto Tagliavini

Anna Pirozzi

Soprano (+5)

Anna Netrebko

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Anna Werle

Aigul Akhmetshina

Elisabetta Zizzo

Baritone (+1)

Youngjun Park

Maria José Siri

Soprano (+4)

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya

Elena Borin

Igor Golovatenko

Bass (+1)

Simon Lim

«Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate» (Fly, my thoughts, on wings of gold) will be heard again among the thousand-year-old stones of the Arena, in a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's first masterpiece by Stefano Poda opening the 102 Arena di Verona Opera Festival with a double date.

 

‘Two opposites attract and repel each other throughout the stage, until they reach a point of maximum repulsion and splitting, and then arrive at the synthesis of the Finale in which the two opposites are brought together again. The metaphor is that of the bonds between atomic particles: matter originates from their union, but Humanity has discovered how to separate them, causing total destruction. Technological progress makes everything possible - and Nabucco does not hesitate to use his material superiority against the defeated, even to the point of dramatic consequences: the lesson of this masterpiece is that rationality, to be well intentioned, cannot disregard spirituality.’  Stefano Poda

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