Verdi - Nabucco DVD 2000 / Opera in 4 Acts / Junge Philharmonie Wien / Conducted by Michael Lessky / Honvéd Ensemble Choir / Silverline Classics

UPC 5999881067996 / 5999016344275  / IPH4131

REGION 0 PAL DVD  

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Surround 5.1

RUN TIME: 105 minutes

Nabucco (Italian pronunciation: [naˈbukko]; short for Nabucodonosor [naˌbukoˈdɔːnozor, -donoˈzɔr]; English: "Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on biblical books of Jeremiah and Daniel and the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu, although Antonio Cortese's ballet adaptation of the play (with its necessary simplifications), given at La Scala in 1836, was a more important source for Solera than the play itself. Under its original name of Nabucodonosor, the opera was first performed at La Scala in Milan on 9 March 1842.

Production: Wolfgang Werner, July 2000

Musical Direction: Michael Lessky

Orchestra: Junge Philharmonie Wien

Honvéd Ensemble Choir

Nabucco: Walter Donati

Abigail: Galiana Kalinina

Zacharias: Alessandro Teliga

Fenena: Malgozata Walewska

Ismael: Michail Agafonov

First Priest: Peter Daaliysky

Abdallo: Siegfried Verhoving

Anna: Susanna Fülöp

Specials: Interviews, Making of, Synopsis in 6 languages