Trivia / Nabucco

• All-Star Cast: As Nabucco, Abigaille, Zaccaria, Ismaele, and Fenena...
  • Audio Recordings:
    • 1949, conducted by Vittorio Gui: Gino Bechi, Maria Callas, Luciano Neroni, Gino Sinimberghi, Amalia Pini.
    • 1960, conducted by Thomas Schippers (live from the Old Metropolitan Opera House, New York): Cornell MacNeil, Leonie Rysanek, Cesare Siepi, Eugenio Fernandi, Rosalind Elias
    • 1977, conducted by Riccardo Muti: Matteo Manuguerra, Renata Scotto, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Veriano Luchetti, Elena Obraztsova.
    • 1982, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli: Piero Cappuccilli, Ghena Dimitrova, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Plácido Domingo, Lucia Valentini Terrani.
    • 1999, conducted by Daniel Oren: Renato Bruson, Maria Guleghina, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Fabio Armiliato, Elena Zaremba.
  • Video Recordings:
    • 2002, conducted by James Levine at the Met Opera: Juan Pons, Maria Guleghina, Samuel Ramey, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Wendy White.
• Reality Subtext: The Risorgimento being in full swing at the time, the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves is often interpreted as an expression of longing for Italian unity.