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Waterville Opera House - Live HD Broadcast THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: Nabucco
Saturday, January 07, 2017, 12:55pm
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Nabucco

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Abigaille, the warrior woman determined to rule empires, and Jamie Barton is the heroic Fenena. Dmitri Belosselskiy is the stentorian voice of the oppressed Hebrew people.

The world premiere of this opera was in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 1842. The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), catapulted the 28-year-old composer to international fame. The music and Verdi himself were subsumed into a surge of patriotic fervor culminating in the foundation of the modern nation of Italy. Specifically, the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (“Va, pensiero”), in which the Israelites express their longing for their homeland, came to stand for the country’s aspirations for unity and that exciting era in Italian history, the Risorgimento, or “Resurgence.”

Location Waterville Opera House, 1 Common Street, 2nd Floor, downtown Waterville, ME
Cost/Cover: Tickets: $20 Adults, $18 Seniors
Web Page: http://www.operahouse.org
This performance is a live HD broadcast from NYC.
Running time: 2 hours and 43 mins, including one intermission
Music By: Giuseppe Verdi
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