Nabucco
Nabucco is Nabucco is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera.
Contents
The original text
The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Daniel, and on the 1836 play by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1965: Presented by PACT Opera.
1966: Presented by PACT Opera.
1995: Presented by CAPAB Opera (18 January – 6 February)
2003: Presented by Cape Town Opera (5–16 June)
2005: Presented by Cape Town Opera (16–26 April)
Sources
Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.
Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow. 2003. The career of South African soprano Nellie du Toit, born 1929. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Stellenbosch.
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