Verdi's Nabucco arrives to Arena's Lyric Festival

Dedicated to Lombard's people this choir became more popular during the second world war when this words would be related to the politic and social condition of GIUDEI. It will be remain into the history how the higher moment Risorgimento, a specific period of Italian history. Curiously the real name of this opera initially was "Nabuccodonosor" but in the graphic posters of this period the name was divided into two parts and only the first, that was Nabucco, was remembered by the critics and the people so arrived to us. The actors of the first performance were high level for this period and were: Giorgio Ronconi, Corrado Miraglia, Prospero Derivis, Giuseppina Strepponi, Giovannina Bellinzaghi e Gaetano Rossi. Surely the performance of 1842 is unrepeteable but very beautiful will be the representation into the Arena of Verona, between the Lyric Festival that will be act for the first time in 9 July 2011.

 

From 9 July in fact you can plunge in the Verdi's opera accompanied by the famous interpreters which surely will gave their personal touch to the performance, and to the Libretto written by Temistocle Solera. For the occasion the music director will be Julian Kovatchev. The famous music director, which started his career thanks to his father and recently named new  "Principale Direttore Ospite al Teatro Verdi di Trieste", has just obtained a great success to the Filarmonic Theathre of Verona with the opera La vedova Allegra and in Frankfurt with Tosca. In Verona this famous music director will be introduce the immortal Opera of Nabucco, within his peculiar vision and his peculiar capacity to control the orchestra finding the right way of entertainment and culture.

 

And what about the director?! For this particular edition of Nabucco the director will be  Gianfranco di Bosio, famous Italian director, with gave his contribution in all type of arts and which characterize with his particular point of view all the art production in the Italian landscape of about 50 years. Actually de Bosio teach to the IULM of Milan Arts and entertainment and coordinate the Course of Venetian language at the Piccolo Teatro' school.

 

The sets will be those designed by Rinaldo Olivieri, a renowned died architect who has contributed significantly thought his work to set design and care of the stands into the Arena. It's no coincidence that the known star shaped structure is applied every year as a whole Christmas decoration for the Arena and also for the entire city of Verona.

 

The performers for this version of Nabucco will be: Rubens Pellizzari, Raymond Aceto, Dimitra Theodossiou, Andrea Ulbrich, Ziyan Atfeh, Antonello Ceron and Maria Letizia Grosselli.  There  are many opportunities to see operas, which find their most natural and intense place within the framework of Verona. Barber of Siviglia, La Traviata, La Boheme, and finally the masterpiece that has consecrated the city of Verona as a city of love that Romeo and Juliet set up beautifully to finish with a flourish this summer.

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This article was written by Martina Celegato, with support from Verona opera.
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