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Nabucco , the Opera Intermediate Unit #1, Pennsylvania That Was “Born Under a Lucky Star” and Launched His Career Meet the Composer Pittsburgh Opera Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi Education thanks our (October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) generous supporters: by Jill Leahy American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. Giuseppe Verdi, born in a Bayer USA Foundation small village in Parma in The Frick Fund of the northern Italy, was 20 years Buhl Foundation old when he moved to Milan The Jack Buncher Foundation to continue his studies. In Dominion Foundation 1839 he produced his first Eat ‘n Park Hospitality Group, Inc. successful opera, Oberto, ESB Bank Conte di San Bonifacio . First Commonwealth When his next opera failed, Financial Corporation he was ready to give up Solera Temistocle Librettoby The Grable Foundation composing. Fortunately for The Hearst Foundation us, his friend Bartolomeo G Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Merelli encouraged him to continue writing operas. Charles Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Osborne, in The Complete Operas of Verdi , relates a The Huntington National Bank wonderful story about Verdi’s creation of Nabucco , the opera Intermediate Unit #1, Pennsylvania that was “born under a lucky star” and launched his career. Nabucco Photo from Israeli Opera production of Nabucco at the Masada (Hebrew for “fortress”), located atop an Department of Education isolated rock cliff at the western end of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. On the east side, After repeatedly telling Verdi about the libretto by Solera, Levin Furniture the rock falls in a sheer drop of about 450 meters to the Dead Sea, and on the western edge it stands about 100 meters above the surrounding terrain. www.fromthegrapevine.com Merelli forced Verdi to read it. Verdi said, “When I got home, Martha Mack Lewis Foundation I threw the manuscript on the table with a violent gesture, People’s Natural Gas Drama Rooted in History . Rising from Family Tragedy and stood staring at it. It had fallen open, and without Reed Smith LLP The Techs - MetalTech At the age of 25 in 1839, Verdi experienced moderate success with his first realizing it I gazed at the page and read the line: “ Va opera, Oberto, at La Scala. However, following the deaths of his infant pensiero, sull’ ali dorate .” According to the story, Verdi was Triangle Tech Group United States Steel Corporation children and then his wife, his next opera, Un giorno di regno, failed. Verdi, deeply moved and read many passages from the Bible, but Verdi Giuseppe Music by in despair, decided to give up composing. Bartolomeo Merelli, La Scala's he was determined not to compose any more and took the “Va pensiero, sull'ali dorate” manager, gave the Nabucco libretto to Verdi, who at first refused to read it. libretto back to Merelli. “My friend said, ‘Set it to music. Set it (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) to music!’ And with that, he took the libretto and thrust it in The libretto for Nabucco (short for Nabucodonosor; in my overcoat pocket, grabbed me by the shoulders and not Fly, thought, on wings of gold; English, Nebuchadnezzar) is based on biblical stories only pushed me out of the room but locked the door in my go settle upon the slopes and the hills, where, soft and mild, the sweet airs from the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Daniel face. What was I to do? I went home with Nabucco in my of our native land smell fragrant! (along with Kings, Chronicles, and Psalms), an 1836 pocket. One day a verse, the next day another, at one time play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue, a note, at another a phrase. Little by little the opera was Greet the banks of the Jordan and a ballet adaptation of the play by Antonio Cortese. and Zion's toppled towers . written.” The principal story in Nabucco is about the Assyrian Oh, my country, so beautiful and lost! conquest of Judah and the Babylonian captivity of the Verdi delivered the opera Nabucco to Merelli in the autumn Oh, remembrance, so dear and so fatal! Hebrews. However, many music historians have written of 1841, and because it was so late in the season and the about the parallels to the state of Italy at the time. Italy schedule was already full, Merelli couldn’t afford new For more information on was not united as a country; many areas were under scenery or costumes but promised to use whatever he could Pittsburgh Opera's education the control of Austria and France, and the Italian from his warehouse. According to Verdi, at the 1842 programs, please contact: Nabucco, 1842 people were fomenting Risorgimento , or re-unification. premiere, “The refashioned costumes looked splendid. The costume sketch Marilyn Michalka Egan, Ph.D. When Nabucco was first performed at La Scala on old scenery, touched up by the painter Perroni, made an Director of Education March 9, 1842 under its original name of Nabucodonosor, the audience extraordinary impression. The first scene in the temple, for [email protected] response was overwhelming and the Italian public regarded it as a symbol instance, produced such an effect that the audience 412-281-0912 ext 242 of the struggle against Austrian rule in northern Italy. applauded for ten minutes.” Pittsburgh Opera 2425 Liberty Avenue The question is still being argued today: Did Verdi intentionally create a Aren’t we lucky to benefit from both Merelli’s and Verdi’s Study Guide to the Opera Pittsburgh, PA 15222 “political opera” or, once he saw the result, did he then become a persistence? www.pittsburghopera.org spokesman for Italian freedom? by Jill Leahy Nabucco Synopsis continued Meet the Librettist Nabucco Synopsis Characters herself when, to the astonishment of all, Nabucco appears. He Setting: Jerusalem and Babylon, 6th century B.C.E. snatches the crown from her, faces the crowd and declares Nabucco [nah-BOO-kkoh] baritone himself not only their king but their god (Non son più re, son dio / Part I JERUSALEM King of Babylon I am no longer King! I am God!). For this blasphemy, a The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem thunderbolt strikes him down. Abigaille, triumphant, retrieves the Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I shall The Israelites are Abigaille [ah-bee-gah-EEL-leh] soprano crown for herself. Intermission deliver this city into the hand of the praying for help A slave, presumed to be Nabucco’s King of Babylon, and he will burn it against Nabucco elder daughter Part III THE PROPHECY The Hanging Gardens of Babylon with fire. (Jeremiah 21:10) (Nebuchadnezzar), The Babylonians hail Therefore the wild beasts of the king of Babylon, who Zaccaria [dzahk-kah-REE-ah] bass Abigaille as their ruler. The has attacked them and is vandalizing the city (Gli arredi High priest of the Hebrews desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls High Priest urges her to have festivi giù cadano infranti / Throw down and destroy shall dwell therein. (Jeremiah 50:39) the Israelites killed, but all festive decorations). Zaccaria, their high priest, Ismaele [eez-mah-EH-leh] tenor before she can give the by Jill Leahy enters with Nabucco’s daughter, Fenena, whom the Nephew of the King of Jerusalem order, the disheveled Nabucco wanders in. Abigaille dismisses the Temistocle Solera (1815–1878) Hebrews hold hostage. He reassures his people that the crowd and, alone with Nabucco, tricks him into signing the death was a professional librettist and Lord will not forsake them (D'Egitto là su i lidi / On the Fenena [fey-NAY-nah] mezzo warrant for the captive Israelites. He asks what will happen to composer of moderate shores of Egypt He saved the life of Moses). As the Nabucco’s daughter Fenena, and Abigaille replies that she too must die. When success. He wrote the libretto Israelites leave, Ismaele, nephew of the king of Nabucco tries to find in his garments the document proving for Verdi’s first opera, Oberto , Jerusalem, is left alone with Fenena. The two fell in love High Priest bass Abigaille’s ancestry, she produces it and tears it to pieces. He and in addition to Nabucco , the during Ismaele’s imprisonment in Babylon. Fenena pleads in vain for Fenena’s life (Oh di qual onta aggravasi later operas I Lombardi , helped him escape and followed him to Jerusalem. Their Anna [AHN-nah] soprano questo mio crin canuto / Oh, what shame must my old head Giovanna d’Arco , and Attila . conversation is interrupted by the sudden appearance of Zaccaria's sister suffer). Fenena’s half-sister, Abigaille, and a band of disguised Solera used several books in Babylonian soldiers. Abigaille, who is also in love with Abdallo [ahb-DAHL-loh] tenor Along the banks of the Euphrates, the Israelites rest from forced the Old Testament as sources Ismaele, tells him that she can save his people if he will Babylonian soldier – an old officer of labor, their thoughts turning to their homeland. (Va pensiero, for the Nabucco libretto, as well return her love, but he refuses. The Israelites rush back Nabucco sull'ali dorate / Fly thought, on golden wings ). Zaccaria as the 1836 play by Auguste into the temple in a panic. When Nabucco enters with his predicts that they will overcome captivity and obliterate Babylon Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis warriors, Zaccaria confronts him, threatening to kill Other Roles with God’s help. Cornue. Solera also relied Babylonian Soldiers, Hebrew Soldiers, Levites, Fenena (Viva Nabucco / Long live Nabucco) . Ismaele heavily on Antonio Cortese's Hebrew Virgins, Babylonian Virgins, Babylonian disarms the priest and delivers Fenena to her father. Ladies, Magi, Babylonian Rulers, Slaves Part IV THE BROKEN IDOL Nabucco’s royal apartments ballet adaptation of the play.
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