Organization

Arena di Verona Opera Festival

Orchestra

Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona

Arena di Verona

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Regisseur

Regisseur (+6)

Stefano Poda

Set designer

Kostuum ontwerper

Licht ontwerper

Choreograaf

Dirigent

Pinchas Steinberg

Chorus

Coro della Fondazione Arena di Verona

Koor meester

Dirigent (+1)

Roberto Gabbiani

Bas (+3)

Gabriele Sagona

Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo

Paolo Giani Cei

Set designer (+3)

Michele G Olcese

Tenor (+1)

Galeano Salas

Ismaele

Bariton

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Nabucco

Tenor (+2)

Carlo Bosi

Abdallo

Matteo Macchioni

Sopraan

Daniela Cappiello

Anna

Tenor

Francesco Meli

Alexander Vinogradov

Zaccaria

Bas-bariton (+3)

Christian Van Horn

Sopraan (+1)

Olga Maslova

Abigaille

Mezzosopraan (+2)

Francesca Di Sauro

Fenena

Bariton (+2)

Luca Salsi

Bas (+2)

Roberto Tagliavini

Anna Pirozzi

Sopraan (+5)

Anna Netrebko

Mezzosopraan (+3)

Anna Werle

Aigul Akhmetshina

Elisabetta Zizzo

Bariton (+1)

Youngjun Park

Maria José Siri

Sopraan (+4)

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya

Elena Borin

Igor Golovatenko

Bas (+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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