It was his first great success, in a sense, his breakthrough: Nabucco. Premiered at Milan’s Scala in the spring of 1842, this work marks the start of the brilliant career of Giuseppe Verdi, who would become the leading Italian opera composer, going virtually unrivalled for decades. Set in biblical times in Jerusalem and Babylon, Nabucco deals with the fates of two peoples and cultures, but also the arrogance of the protagonist, who with an inflated sense of self-importance declares himself a god, only then to descend into madness. Tableaux with ceremonial gestures and poignant music, such as the famous chorus “Va pensiero” sung by the imprisoned Hebrews, are combined with scenes of intense expression, filled with drama and passion.

Nabucco

Unter den Linden & Bebelplatz

Set-up in co-production with Teatro Verdi di Pisa, Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna, Teatro Galli di Rimini, Teatro Pavarotti-Freni di Modena, Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova

Macbeth

Carlo Felice Theater

Satanic Rhapsody / Rustic Chivalry

Comunale Nouveau

In a family, one day, the husband's habitual violence against his wife turns into a feminicide. The man kills her by smashing her head with an iron. The woman lies on the ground, dead, but her death is not enough: no one believes her. So it is that the woman, like the angel of the hearth in whose grotesque image she finds herself stuck, will be forced to get up and get back into the same routine, cleaning the house, taking care of housework, preparing food for her son and husband, looking after her elderly mother-in-law. Every morning, family members find her dead and do not believe her. Every morning she gets up, opens the moka pot, closed too tightly, and begins again to suffer the violence of her husband, the depression of her son, the impotence of her mother-in-law who, instead of condemning her brutal and despotic son, pities him. Every night the wife dies again, as in a circle of hell in which the punishment is never extinguished. In the half-light of a sleeping house, the angel shakes the flaps of her dressing gown and tries to fly, but she is only granted the intention of flight.

Cristian Zucaro

Events

Upcoming events

29 - 30 Apr, 2027

The Angel Of The Hearth · Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Past events

May 23, 2026

Nabucco · Staatsoper Berlin

15 - 24 May, 2026

Macbeth · Opera Carlo Felice Genova

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