Name: Nabucco
Start: 2023-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Immling Festival

Organization

Immling Festival

Stage director

Ini Gerath

Conductor

Evan Alexis Christ

Set designer

Nikolaus Hipp

Costume designer

Steven Koop

Video designer

Maximilian Ulrich

Singer

Soprano

Nutsa Zakaidze

Fenena

Baritone

Mamuka Lomidze

Nabucco

Tenor

Leonardo Sánchez

Ishmael

Trine Møller

Abigail

Bass

Giorgi Chelidze

Zachary

Lyriel Benameur

Anna

Sergey Kostov

Abdallo

Tair Tazhigulov

The High Priest of Ba'al

Lighting designer

Arndt Sellentin

Others

Festivalchor Immling

Orchestra

Festivalorchester Immling

Italian

Halfing

Germany

Festspielhaus

Public

German

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

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Choir

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Dramaturge

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Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Alto

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Continuo

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The Babylonian king Nabucco succeeds in winning the battle against the Israelites and in enslaving the Hebrew people. Among them, however, is one he loves: his daughter Fenena, who in turn has a close relationship with the Jewish prince Ismaele. She is not alone in her love for this man: her sister Abigaille also desires him and is almost mad with jealousy.

When she then learns that she is not really the daughter of a king and future heir to the throne, but the illegitimate child and daughter of a slave, her thirst for revenge grows immeasurably.

King Nabucco is consumed by power and in his delusions of grandeur proclaims himself a god. Abigaille knows how to take advantage of her father's mental state: hoping to win back royal power, she forces him to have all the Hebrews executed.
So also that of his daughter Fenena, who has converted in her relationship with Ismaele and would be the rightful heir to the throne.

With Nabucco and thus a story that originally comes from the Old Testament, Verdi achieved his breakthrough as an opera composer and also the starting signal for “his galley years”:

“You can say I haven't had an hour
's rest since Nabucco. Sixteen galley years!'

so Verdi in 1858 in a letter to his girlfriend Clarina Maffei.

English

Dem babylonischen König Nabucco gelingt es, den Kampf gegen die Israeliten für sich zu entscheiden und das Volk der Hebräer zu knechten. Darunter ist jedoch eine, die er liebt: seine Tochter Fenena, die wiederum eine innige Beziehung zu dem jüdischen Prinzen Ismaele pflegt. Sie ist nicht allein mit ihrer Liebe zu diesem Mann: Auch ihre Schwester Abigaille begehrt ihn und ist schier rasend vor Eifersucht.

Als sie dann noch erfährt, eigentlich nicht Königstochter und zukünftige Thronfolgerin zu sein, sondern uneheliches Kind und Tochter einer Sklavin, wächst ihre Rachsucht ins Unermessliche.

König Nabucco wird von der Macht verschlungen und ernennt sich selbst in seinem Größenwahn zum Gott. Den irren Geisteszustand des Vaters weiß Abigaille für sich zu nutzen: In der Hoffnung, die königliche Macht zurückzugewinnen, zwingt sie ihn, die Hinrichtung aller Hebräer zu veranlassen.
Damit auch die seiner Tochter Fenena, die in ihrer Beziehung zu Ismaele konvertiert ist und rechtmäßige Thronfolgerin wäre.

Mit Nabucco und damit einer Geschichte, die ursprünglich dem Alten Testament entstammt, gelang Verdi sein Durchbruch als Opernkomponist und auch der Startschuss „seiner Galeerenjahre“:

»Seit Nabucco habe ich, kann man sagen, nicht eine Stunde
Ruhe gehabt. Sechzehn Galeerenjahre!«

so Verdi 1858 in einem Brief an seine Freundin Clarina Maffei.

Deutsch

Nabucco by Verdi, Fri 07 Jul 2023, From (2023/2023), Directed by Ini Gerath,, Conductor Evan Alexis Christ, Immling Festival, Halfing, Germany

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