Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Convincing Verdi to compose Nabucco was not a simple matter. Still under thirty, he had vowed never to compose ...

“The stars have to be aligned perfectly for a company to attempt to stage ‘Nabucco,’ ” says Nicolas Reveles, the San Diego Opera’s director of education and outreach. If that’s so, let’s thank our ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The company’s opening week included performances of “Nabucco” and the Requiem. By Oussama Zahr This week, the Metropolitan Opera ...

It was a calculated act of kindness that changed the opera world. A prescient impresario thrust a libretto with a biblical plot into the hands of a reluctant and depressed Giuseppe Verdi, who was then ...

The Met: Live in HD Summer Encore series presents a re-broadcast of Verdi's Nabucco, in select cinemas nationwide on Wednesday, July 12. Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Verdi's early ...

Nabucco, declaring himself a god, is stunned, though not killed, by a lightning strike, whereupon Abigaille seizes the crown, and issues a death decree for all the Jews, including her recently ...